(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 08:48pm on 19/12/2005
I used to regularly fly in 146s on Dan Dare's bus stop route: Belfast/IoM/Liverpool/Cardiff/Bristol/Guernsey/Jersey

One trip they had (forgets serial number, but it was the Queen's Flight proving aircraft. The pilot seemed intent on demonstrating short field two-engine landings on every stop...
[parent entry] [link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] ianmcdonald.livejournal.com at 10:21pm on 19/12/2005
It was dan Dare that landed a 146 at the wrong airport in Belfast, not the well-lit, prominent Aldergrove but the decommissioned Nutts Corner (appropriate name if ever there were) two miles away. If it had been Sunday, he'd have run slap bang into a market selling ireland's highest concentration of counterfeit goods. Apparently he had to take off and land at Aldergrove... but the passengers refused to go with him and ordered a fleet of taxis.
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] quercus.livejournal.com at 10:33pm on 19/12/2005
And a week or two later, didn't Dan Dare manage to do it _again_ (picking the wrong chunk of Belfast Harbour/City)

I used to fly Belfast - Newcastle fairly often. If you were lucky you were on a 146 route (and just had to breathe gearbox oil), if you were unlucky you got one of Shorts' flying transits.
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] ajshepherd.livejournal.com at 12:09am on 20/12/2005
Ah yes, Shorts. "That's a nice aeroplane, when are you taking it out of the box?"
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] quercus.livejournal.com at 12:19am on 20/12/2005
If it hadn't been going to cost Silly Money to deliver it, I almost bought one once (actually a scrapped fuselage), to use as a Shed.
[link] [parent] [reply]
 

(no subject)

posted by [identity profile] ajshepherd.livejournal.com at 11:59pm on 19/12/2005
I think it was a 146 that Prince Charles notably pranged by running it off the end of a runway into a ditch. They didn't let him fly after that!
[link] [parent] [reply]

January

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  1
1
 2
2
 3
1
 4
 
 5
 
 6
 
7
 
 8
 
 9
 
 10
 
 11
 
 12
 
 13
 
14
 
 15
 
 16
 
 17
 
 18
 
 19
 
 20
 
21
 
 22
 
 23
 
 24
 
 25
 
 26
 
 27
 
28
 
 29
 
 30
 
 31