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With it being a bit quiet lately, I thought I would share some photos from nearly 40 years ago.
Air Ecosse Twin Otter
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Jersey European Twin Otter
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Air Ecosse Bandeirante
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Genair Bandeirante
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Those were the days when you could get on to the apron (with a bit of persuasion).
With it being a bit quiet lately, I thought I would share some photos from nearly 40 years ago.
Air Ecosse Twin Otter
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Jersey European Twin Otter
View attachment 14133
Air Ecosse Bandeirante
View attachment 14134
Genair Bandeirante
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Those were the days when you could get on to the apron (with a bit of persuasion).
@Carl0927 sent me a message earlier with regards to the Aer Lingus Carvair service that operated between Liverpool and Dublin between 1963 & 1966. The ATL-98 Carvair was basically a converted DC-6 with a modified nose section which had the cockpit above the old cabin and a side hinged front nose door through which cars, and later palletised freight, we're loaded. The aircraft carried up to 5 cars (remember cars were a lot smaller in those days) in the main fuselage - back to around just aft of the rear wing root - and could accommodate 23 passengers in the rear cabin.
I well remember being taken on holiday by my parents and using the service. This would be the first of only two flights taken from Speke (the other being on a British Midland DC-9-10 to Heathrow circa 1985). We departed to Dublin from the iconic original Terminal, which is now a hotel, and I will never forget the thrill of the engines being run-up to full power, against the brakes, to check the magnetos - this was an event that resulted in the whole cabin shaking and almost twisting. The rest of the flight I can't recall in detail except to say that the old days of travel, for a boy who was only just in his teens, where the best!!
@Carl0927 sent me a message earlier with regards to the Aer Lingus Carvair service that operated between Liverpool and Dublin between 1963 & 1966. The ATL-98 Carvair was basically a converted DC-6 with a modified nose section which had the cockpit above the old cabin and a side hinged front nose door through which cars, and later palletised freight, we're loaded. The aircraft carried up to 5 cars (remember cars were a lot smaller in those days) in the main fuselage - back to around just aft of the rear wing root - and could accommodate 23 passengers in the rear cabin.
I well remember being taken on holiday by my parents and using the service. This would be the first of only two flights taken from Speke (the other being on a British Midland DC-9-10 to Heathrow circa 1985). We departed to Dublin from the iconic original Terminal, which is now a hotel, and I will never forget the thrill of the engines being run-up to full power, against the brakes, to check the magnetos - this was an event that resulted in the whole cabin shaking and almost twisting. The rest of the flight I can't recall in detail except to say that the old days of travel, for a boy who was only just in his teens, where the best!!
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I think it must have been Viscounts before the DC9s with British Midland.
Yes I think you're correct with the DC-9-15 designation.
The first one they received was from the states, second from Finnair. I don't think SAS operated Srs 15, theirs were Srs 21.
@Carl0927 sent me a message earlier with regards to the Aer Lingus Carvair service that operated between Liverpool and Dublin between 1963 & 1966. The ATL-98 Carvair was basically a converted DC-6 with a modified nose section which had the cockpit above the old cabin and a side hinged front nose door through which cars, and later palletised freight, we're loaded. The aircraft carried up to 5 cars (remember cars were a lot smaller in those days) in the main fuselage - back to around just aft of the rear wing root - and could accommodate 23 passengers in the rear cabin.
I well remember being taken on holiday by my parents and using the service. This would be the first of only two flights taken from Speke (the other being on a British Midland DC-9-10 to Heathrow circa 1985). We departed to Dublin from the iconic original Terminal, which is now a hotel, and I will never forget the thrill of the engines being run-up to full power, against the brakes, to check the magnetos - this was an event that resulted in the whole cabin shaking and almost twisting. The rest of the flight I can't recall in detail except to say that the old days of travel, for a boy who was only just in his teens, where the best!!
I don't recall Aer Lingus operating their 737s in mixed passenger/freight mode. If I'm correct they were AS (quick change) versions and operated as passenger aircraft and then switched to freighter configuration for the night flights.
I do recall Sabena operating a mixed configuration out of Manchester, but I believe it was only on the late evening arrival from Brussels that then overnight and left again at around 7am.
Quite right as i intimated in post #5. I certainly remember them serving Manchester with the Carvair on their evening freight service.Didn't Aer Lingus operate a Carvair cargo flight in the 60's?
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