You don't see this anymore.

[Jack B]

Absolutely fantastic photos!

You should consider trying to get those onto jetphotos/airliners.net - especially the AA 707 as there are very few photos of the aicraft in SYD

Those BOAC 707's would have been nearing the end of their service to Sydney around then, fully replaced by VC10's by 1971

Does anybody know if the VC10's started operating into Sydney before the opening of the current international terminal?

[Anthony T]

Thanks for your comments, Jack.

How do I get all the dust off old slides?
My final 707 flight was in 1976 on TWA from Chicago to San Francisco.
Although I did a B720 flight from Medellin to Bogata (145 miles) on Aerocondor (HK-1974) in 1978. An interesting SID applied at Medellin, which was mainly concerned with not hitting the Andes mountains.

Anthony T

[Todd Steele]

Amazing photos, love the AA, do you have any Pan Am's

[Anthony T]

Hi there

Todd I'll check tomorrow and will post on this thread, have about 4,000 slides dating from the early 1970's. Pan Am 707's have got to be in there somewhere.


Cheers
Anthony

[Todd Steele]

Originally Posted by Anthony T

Hi there

Todd I'll check tomorrow and will post on this thread, have about 4,000 slides dating from the early 1970's. Pan Am 707's have got to be in there somewhere.


Cheers
Anthony

Thanks Anthony

[Anthony T]

You should consider trying to get those onto jetphotos/airliners.net

Not interested in these sites, i'll just release pictures on this thread for the time being.

Let the kids upload to JP/AN with pics of A/C that turn up every other day.

Am I getting too old for this stuff?

Anthony T

[Grahame Hutchison]

Great shots Anthony, in the first one there are the three little houses alongside the current international standoff bays, and no old tower in the background. This was the days of the tower being where the old fire station was (near the intersection of Charlie and Golf). Visited the tower a few times back then.

Great to see the Pan Am and AA livery on the 707.

A VC10 image or two would be great to see, I remember the Captain Bristow ads on TV, with the "Hush Power" tag line, very popular ads back then.

On one of my QF 707 flights Sydney - Auckland (First Class this time) I was in the cockpit when they were taking a position reading. They would attach a sextant type instrument to a mount in the cockpit ceiling and make the readings (the good old days of navigation).

I also remember visiting the QF 707 simulator which had a model landscape and a video camera that travelled over it in line with cockpit control inputs. Very primitive but useful at the time.

[Peter Agatsiotis]

Yes Grahame, Capt Bristow.

On our 'migration flight' I posted earlier, my son (2 yo) was given a Junior Flight log which had a photo of Capt Bristow on the introduction page.
The first leg of our looong flight was recorded (up to HKG then the flight changed to BA811A)

I asked for mine (as an a/c spotter) and the young hostie 's******ed' - they're only for the kids!!!

Anthony; you may want to consider this site to upload your slides:

http://smugmug.com

It is your own site, no judging, rules etc. plus it is a backup for safekeeping in case you lose your files.

It costs $US40 (after a 14 day trial) and no limit on photos etc.

Mine are at:

http://paggsy.smugmug.com/

The good, the bad and the ugly.

I too had tried the others and too fussy. Then you find their records have cocpit views, nose at the gate, wingtip at sunset etc. Nice as they are I would rather see a picture of the actual plane.

[Jack B]

Originally Posted by Grahame Hutchison

Great shots Anthony, in the first one there are the three little houses alongside the current international standoff bays, and no old tower in the background. This was the days of the tower being where the old fire station was (near the intersection of Charlie and Golf). Visited the tower a few times back then.

Great to see the Pan Am and AA livery on the 707.

A VC10 image or two would be great to see, I remember the Captain Bristow ads on TV, with the "Hush Power" tag line, very popular ads back then.

On one of my QF 707 flights Sydney - Auckland (First Class this time) I was in the cockpit when they were taking a position reading. They would attach a sextant type instrument to a mount in the cockpit ceiling and make the readings (the good old days of navigation).

I also remember visiting the QF 707 simulator which had a model landscape and a video camera that travelled over it in line with cockpit control inputs. Very primitive but useful at the time.

Are the 'Captain Bristow' ads of any relation to the "Seargant Major" BOAC VC10 ad from 1970?




In addition to the VC10, I'd like to see some Pan American 707 photographs!

[Nigel C]

Air Caledonia still has regular (most flights) stretcher patient transfers. So nothing's changed in that regard.