V-Flyer

Nice find HL..

The fare to JNB hasn't gone up by much over 55 years though has it...[:p]

It was "born" the same year as I was and I have had the pleasure of flying in one, Dan Air to Tenerife - smoothest landing I have ever experienced.

I just love how it was only 4 hours shorter, but 1000 mile longer. That and crew swap at Beruit and Khartoum, which is only 1200 miles away, Oh how times have changed.

Originally posted by Bazz
It was "born" the same year as I was and I have had the pleasure of flying in one, Dan Air to Tenerife - smoothest landing I have ever experienced.

I too had the pleasure of travelling in a Dan Air (or "Dan dare" as chums often callled the airline) Comet 4B to Tenerife - IIRC depending on wind /loads, the aircraft had to factor in a possible stop to re-fuel[:0]

Happy times[:w]


buns

Halcyon days Buns, halcyon days... it was into the Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte in those days, always an interesting approach and final.

Oh, God, lads! Any second now you are going to erupt into "In my day....." as you collect your pipes and slippers!

and except Range and Number of seats, nothing much has changed since!
Still 500mph and 42,000ft. It's a bit of a technological dead end if you ask me[n]

Originally posted by Bazz
"During the war..."

No seriously HL, I am not that old.

No, Bazz. It's "The day war broke out"

I was harking back to "Only Fools and Horses" and the long running gag...

Just noticed that you are flying out of LHR just two days before us, pity we could have met up there again!

Originally posted by honey lamb
Oh, God, lads! Any second now you are going to erupt into "In my day....." as you collect your pipes and slippers!

When I were a lad and took me first flight, you had to take your own seat with you. I choose me deckchair so I could save on hiring one. There were none of this fancy in-flight food you get these days, you packed your sandwiches and a Party7 of Watneys Red barrel to drink and if you were lucky, the pilot would share his hip flask.

To pass the time we use to put on a show up front, usually playing charades and some wag would always do Airport.

[:o)][:o)][:o)]

Off to take my medicine now [:I]

Originally posted by PVGSLF
and except Range and Number of seats, nothing much has changed since!
Still 500mph and 42,000ft. It's a bit of a technological dead end if you ask me[n]

It did change for a while, Concorde RIP.

I think it was Christie Brinkley who said, when alighting from the last Concorde flight into LHR "The world just got a whole lot bigger" or something rather similar? (With due deference to Winston Churchill.)

Originally posted by Bazz
I was harking back to "Only Fools and Horses" and the long running gag...

Ah, but I was going back further

Just noticed that you are flying out of LHR just two days before us, pity we could have met up there again!

Yep, I noticed that too. Pity but perhaps some other time

Thanks for that link Christine.

Originally posted by Bazz
Halcyon days Buns, halcyon days... it was into the Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte in those days, always an interesting approach and final.

Bazz, I'll join the pipe and slipper brigade. I remember flying Dan Air to Los Rodeos, Tenerife on a 727 about six months before a fatal crash of a similar aircraft. Flew into the side of the mountain in poor visibility if I remember and it was scary because we may very well have been on it, but we took the trip early because of my dad's poor health. My first long flight (previous only experience was on a Vickers Viscount to Guernsey that never made it above the clouds) and I loved it.

If anyone has listened to Roy 'Chubby' Brown, a particularly blue comedian, in one sketch he goes on about how much he hates flying and says (expletives xxxed out) "Mine always happens to be the little ******* red leathered Dan Air one on the end. The one Buddy Holly just got off. Glen Miller pasty stuck to the b*****d ceiling".[:o)]

Phil

Originally posted by Bazz
Halcyon days Buns, halcyon days... it was into the Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte in those days, always an interesting approach and final.

Bazz

Halcyon days most certainly:D:D One used to dress in ones finest just to travel[}:)]

I also recall that one of the Dan Air Comets eventually turned up at the Air Scout Campsite in Lasham, near Alton in Hampshire and was used as sleeping quarters for the visiting Scouts. BTW this replaced the original Avro Yorks (as used in the Berlin Airlift)

And before you ask, Honey Lamb, no i did not partake in that event nor the war for that matter:D:D:D


buns

Phil, yes you are right, I couldn't remember what the airport was called in those days. Glad you missed that fateful flight and yes, I do remember the accident.

Tenerife North still has the accolade? of being the site of the worst air disaster ever - albeit the planes were not airborne, so not actually an air crash.

Reina Sofia is now called Tenerife Sur (God, it was inaugurated in 1978) or something equally disgusting, why they felt they had to change the name, I do not know!