Originally Posted by
Seat 2A
The airframe looks like a heavily modified Aero Commander...
Quite a bit bigger !
I should have also put in a second order for those frigid beers for
S2A for his excellent identification skills for those Heathrow aircraft. Spot on again.
0.18 - How did you identify that was a DC8 at that distance ? Reddish tail - any ideas ? Air Canada ?
8.04 - Yes, that's a Bristol Freighter, making a surprisingly fast (for one of those) approach. Normally they took for ever. The Britannia is a surprise at Gatwick (which it is) as BOAC never operated from there, it could well be one that had been sold to one of the Gatwick independents and was awaiting repainting. To it's left is a mystery to me too, single blue line on a white tail, which is not BUA's scheme.