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Revision as of 08:42, 13 September 2015
Documentary (2004)
English title: Truck
Starring:
Howard Asbridge (Narrator)
To see a black and white still photo of a Viking is unusual; to watch one in action in colour, with sound, is amazing! That’s just one item in this superb collection of airliners, in service with independent operators from the fifties to the early eighties. Remember the cross-Channel air ferries, carrying cars by Bristol Superfreighter and Carvair? There’s a wonderful sequence here that brings it all back, as we visit many UK airports, Antwerp, Le Bourget and Canadian.
Aero Spacelines 377MG Mini Guppy
Registration N422AJ, c/n 15937. Seen at the Paris Air Show 1967 Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget.
Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2
Still wearing BEA’s livery. Must be either G-ALZR, G-ALZT, G-ALZW.
Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador
Registration G-ALFR, c/n 5210. Operated by Dan-Air from 1961 to 1973. Previously by D.Napier & Son with BEA livery for test of Napier Elan turboprop.
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.660 Argosy 101
Registration G-BEOZ, c/n 6660.
Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair
Must be G-ASKD, G-ASKG or G-ASKN.
Aviation Traders ATL-98A Carvair
Registration G-AOFW, c/n 10351/ATL98/12. Ex Douglas C-54 Skym aster registered in 1955 for Air Charter Ltd. Modified as ATL Carvair in 1963 and operated by British United Air Ferries until 1967 then under the name British Air Ferries until 1984.
Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair
Another unidentified Carvair of BUAF taking off.
Aviation Traders ATL-98A Carvair
Registration G-ASKN, c/n 3058/ATL98/13. Delivered to British United Air Ferries in 1964. Sold to Gabon in 1976.
Aviation Traders ATL-98A Carvair
Registration LX-IOG, c/n 10365/ATL98/05.
Avro 748 Series 1/101
Avro 748 in the back ground. A F27 of Air Anglia in the foreground (listed below).
Avro 748 Series 1A/200
Registration G-ARAY, c/n 1535. 2nd prototype built in 1960, owned by Av.Roe & Co.Ltd til 1963 then by Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd. Sold to Dan-Air Services Ltd in 1971.
