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Old Jul 2, 2012, 11:07 am
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Wally Bird
 
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Originally Posted by WHBM
Le Touquet, BUA, Viscount
Airport is correct. You can actually see Britain on a clear day from there, across the Dover Strait. But BUA had long retired their Viscounts, which indeed started the service in the 1960s, when they traded them in for One-Elevens, quite inappropriate for such a short service, and it was passed through a series of other operators. By 1980 it was in the hands of Air UK, three times a day from Gatwick with Handley Page Heralds.
Ya know, I knew that . For some reason whenever I think of British airlines, Air UK never comes to mind. Must be the name 'Air Yuk' or maybe that awful blue paint job.
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