What was Super Club?
Feb 10, 2004, 5:03 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Dakota:
Which came first: Thunderbirds or the VC-10?
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Which came first: Thunderbirds or the VC-10?
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The FireFlash looked like a souped up VC10.....
Feb 10, 2004, 5:40 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by edi-traveller:
Thunderbirds was made in 1966 - VC10s were around the same time weren't they.
The FireFlash looked like a souped up VC10.....</font>
Thunderbirds was made in 1966 - VC10s were around the same time weren't they.
The FireFlash looked like a souped up VC10.....</font>
Remember the London Airport on there! A bit different to LHR at the time
btw, that photo is taken from what is now T2 and the North Runway is in the background
Feb 10, 2004, 6:42 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Dakota:
Which came first: Thunderbirds or the VC-10?
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Which came first: Thunderbirds or the VC-10?
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Now I'm going to tell you something.
Him Indoors and Virgil (TBird 2) look quite alike. When he's had a few they walk alike. Guess who pulls the strings?!
Feb 10, 2004, 6:53 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PUCCI GALORE:
Him Indoors and Virgil (TBird 2) look quite alike. When he's had a few they walk alike. Guess who pulls the strings?!
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Him Indoors and Virgil (TBird 2) look quite alike. When he's had a few they walk alike. Guess who pulls the strings?!
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Feb 10, 2004, 7:32 am
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Ah Parker!
We have a little job to do. Bring the venom spitting hairbrush please. And whilst you are about it Three teas, two cream and one plain.
Thank YOu Parker
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We have a little job to do. Bring the venom spitting hairbrush please. And whilst you are about it Three teas, two cream and one plain.
Thank YOu Parker
[This message has been edited by PUCCI GALORE (edited Feb 10, 2004).]
Feb 21, 2019, 10:17 am
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Ah Club and Super Club seen at first on the USA routes when the new RR 747-236 was able to make the West Coast non-stop at last
747-136
Previously only First and Economy on a 747-136
27F with 42'' leg room and Upper Deck Monarch F lounge with cocktail bar and steward (eventually lounge will go and get 30 Y seats upstairs)
plus 335 Y at 34'' pitch 2-4-3 abreast
(winter config 36F/315Y)
The came along Crown First and Executive Class/Club (9 abreast) followed by selling Club and Super Club (at 6 abreast) by using a new convertible seat that gave a 21'' seat width when in 6 abreast...The seat was wide, with a drop down tray/divider, but not really very comfy, leg room was better, but not much more than Y...
BA then had the flexibility to change the cabin configs on flights where the demand warranted, and could even downgrade to an all Y at 9 abreast...
Super Club 6 abreast but could be changed to 9 abreast Club or downgraded to all Y
Crown First
30 Y seats at first replacing the UD Monarch Lounge on the 747-136
747-136
Previously only First and Economy on a 747-136
27F with 42'' leg room and Upper Deck Monarch F lounge with cocktail bar and steward (eventually lounge will go and get 30 Y seats upstairs)
plus 335 Y at 34'' pitch 2-4-3 abreast
(winter config 36F/315Y)
The came along Crown First and Executive Class/Club (9 abreast) followed by selling Club and Super Club (at 6 abreast) by using a new convertible seat that gave a 21'' seat width when in 6 abreast...The seat was wide, with a drop down tray/divider, but not really very comfy, leg room was better, but not much more than Y...
BA then had the flexibility to change the cabin configs on flights where the demand warranted, and could even downgrade to an all Y at 9 abreast...
Super Club 6 abreast but could be changed to 9 abreast Club or downgraded to all Y
Crown First
30 Y seats at first replacing the UD Monarch Lounge on the 747-136
Feb 21, 2019, 11:49 am
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Absolutely. I was a regular UM on the hot high African routes, the silent sporty climb out from short runways like Chileka is an experience sadly missing from commercial aviation today. Not only could they get in and out, they could climb straight to cruising altitude and make it back to London. A 707 out of the longer Nairobi field could only get airborne with enough fuel for Rome, and there was an alleged sighting of a 707 freighter leaving a wake across lake Victoria as it failed to gain altitude in the hotter thin air over the lake.
Feb 21, 2019, 1:04 pm
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In the Super Club cabin it looks like you had a limited choice of seats if you wanted to watch the film without being (heavily) smoked. I assume all passengers were lightly smoked, given the "smoking" seats next to the "non-smoking" seats.
I don't miss smokers in aircraft at all.
I don't miss smokers in aircraft at all.
Feb 21, 2019, 1:12 pm
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Too right !
Wasn’t there a scene in Airplane when a guy requesting a smoking seat at check-in is handed a boarding pass with smoke billowing from its edges ..... ?
Some great archive stuff there from rog 747 thanks ^
Wasn’t there a scene in Airplane when a guy requesting a smoking seat at check-in is handed a boarding pass with smoke billowing from its edges ..... ?
Some great archive stuff there from rog 747 thanks ^
Feb 21, 2019, 1:14 pm
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The conversations I have had with customers about sitting in a non smoking row in front of smoking, I would explain that is wasn’t a row where the smoke might not affect you but a row where you could not smoke.
Feb 21, 2019, 1:44 pm
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A 15-year thread bump from @rog747 - surely that is some kind of record!? And with some fantastic old-school BA literature so a truly useful thread bump too. Thanks 
