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  1. BOAC's SpeedBird? More like The SpeedMaw!

    Honestly? There was no way we thought this would work, but turns out it works surprisingly well. Even if we don't like the whole hyperreal maw kinda thing.

    #furry #doodle #idea #boac

  2. A job I have lined up for this year is to rehabilitate a large old steamer trunk.  Today I untied a luggage tag from its handle.  It’s a flight tag from Singapore, date uncertain, but the company name can be made out – British Overseas Airways [Corporation].  That took me back a bit.  Has to be at least fifty years old but it looks probably 60+.

    This was in the days when you could take a steamer trunk on a plane – or even a train ... honest!

    #luggage #BOAC #realAirTags

  3. My step son woke up this morning in Scotland. He’ll sleep tonight at our house. He’s already part way through quite the travel journey today.

    I used flightaware.com to watch his first flight, from Aberdeen, Scotland to London, England. In less than five minutes he is scheduled to take off on his second flight of the day. This one from London to Boston. He’ll land sometime around 9:00pm, or a little before then.

    As is always the case when one of the kids is traveling by air, I am nervous. Hell, I’m always nervous, but like the good American who comes from Irish immigrants, I suppress my nerves and emotions and just bottle them up until I explode. See the collected works of Dennis Leary for more stereotypical information on this stereotype that is probably not accurate but sometimes feels like it is.

    Yeah, I am nervous. I watched the first connecting flight circle Heathrow airport a couple of times and I started getting scared that there was something going on in London. Nope. Just a busy day at the ol’ airport. Everything is fine. Everything went fine. All is well.

    Flightaware says the plane is taxiing for take off. I’m not superstitious, but I (figuratively) have my fingers crossed. Here’s hoping for the best.

    Safe flight, Harry. See you on the ground, back home in the good old U.S. of A.

    https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/03/15/flying/

    #airTravel #boac #britishAir #collegeKid #Family #flight #flights #fly #harry #Kids #StepKids #Travel

  4. G-ASYD, British Aircraft Corporation BAC 1-11-400AM, British Aerospace, serving as a Fly By Light flight demonstrator, at Liverpool Speke, some time in the early 1990s.

    A7-BOF, Boeing 777-3ZGER, Qatar Airways, smoking the mains after touching down on Runway 23Right at Manchester Airport, as seen from the top of the T3 car park.

     

    HB-IXH, British Aerospace Avro RJ85, CrossAir, at Amsterdam Schipol, either 1993 or 1996.

     

    G-AVOF, Bristol 175 Britannia 312F, in full BOAC colours on display outside the Royal Air Force Museum, RAF Cosford, 5th February 1996.

     

    3 Boeing 737s and an Airbus A320 almost lined up, from front to rear, D-ABHH, B737-230, D-ABEB, B737-330, D-ABWF, B737-330, and D-AIOE, A320-211, all Lufthansa, at Dusseldorf Airport, either 1993 or 1996.

     

    G-APSA, Douglas DC-6A(C), Instone Airlines, at Woodford Airshow, 25th June 1994.

     

    D-ADFO, Douglas DC-10-30, Lufthansa, at Frankfurt Airport, October or November 1993.

     

    F-OGYM, Airbus A310-324, Diamond Sakha, at London Heathrow, some time in the late 1990s.

     

    OK-JBJ, Ilyushin IL-62M, BemoAir bringing Czech fans for a Euro ’96 football match, at Manchester Airport, 9th June 1996.

    https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/02/06/photo-of-the-day-6th-february-2024/

    #a310 #a320 #airbus #airshow #ams #amsterdam #avgeek #aviation #avro #B175 #b737 #b777 #bac111 #BemoAir #BOAC #boeing #Bristol #britannia #BritishAerospace #BritishAircraftCorporation #Cosford #crossair #dc10 #dc6 #DiamondSakha #douglas #dus #dusseldorf #eddf #egcc #egcd #eggp #egll #EGWC #eham #fra #frankfurt #heathrow #IL62 #ilyushin #Instone #L5 #lhr #liverpool #london #lpl #lufthansa #man #manchester #museum #photography #planespotting #QatarAirways #RAFMuseum #rj85 #Runway23Right #schipol #speke #TailsTuesday #woodford

  5. G-ASYD, British Aircraft Corporation BAC 1-11-400AM, British Aerospace, serving as a Fly By Light flight demonstrator, at Liverpool Speke, some time in the early 1990s.

    A7-BOF, Boeing 777-3ZGER, Qatar Airways, smoking the mains after touching down on Runway 23Right at Manchester Airport, as seen from the top of the T3 car park.

     

    HB-IXH, British Aerospace Avro RJ85, CrossAir, at Amsterdam Schipol, either 1993 or 1996.

     

    G-AVOF, Bristol 175 Britannia 312F, in full BOAC colours on display outside the Royal Air Force Museum, RAF Cosford, 5th February 1996.

     

    3 Boeing 737s and an Airbus A320 almost lined up, from front to rear, D-ABHH, B737-230, D-ABEB, B737-330, D-ABWF, B737-330, and D-AIOE, A320-211, all Lufthansa, at Dusseldorf Airport, either 1993 or 1996.

     

    G-APSA, Douglas DC-6A(C), Instone Airlines, at Woodford Airshow, 25th June 1994.

     

    D-ADFO, Douglas DC-10-30, Lufthansa, at Frankfurt Airport, October or November 1993.

     

    F-OGYM, Airbus A310-324, Diamond Sakha, at London Heathrow, some time in the late 1990s.

     

    OK-JBJ, Ilyushin IL-62M, BemoAir bringing Czech fans for a Euro ’96 football match, at Manchester Airport, 9th June 1996.

    https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/02/06/photo-of-the-day-6th-february-2024/

    #a310 #a320 #airbus #airshow #ams #amsterdam #avgeek #aviation #avro #B175 #b737 #b777 #bac111 #BemoAir #BOAC #boeing #Bristol #britannia #BritishAerospace #BritishAircraftCorporation #Cosford #crossair #dc10 #dc6 #DiamondSakha #douglas #dus #dusseldorf #eddf #egcc #egcd #eggp #egll #EGWC #eham #fra #frankfurt #heathrow #IL62 #ilyushin #Instone #L5 #lhr #liverpool #london #lpl #lufthansa #man #manchester #museum #photography #planespotting #QatarAirways #RAFMuseum #rj85 #Runway23Right #schipol #speke #TailsTuesday #woodford

  6. My name is Dmitriy Petrov, and if you are reading these lines, it means that I most likely died fighting Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
    "I am a member of the Militant Organisation of Anarcho-Communists (BOAC), and will remain so after my
    freedomnews.org.uk/2023/04/29/
    #anti-imperialism #BOAC #DmitriyPetrov #internationalism #Russianfighters #Ukrainewar

  7. Bonus Photo of the Day 2020-05-06.
    G-AOVF, Bristol 175 Britannia 312, BOAC, on display at RAF Museum, Cosford, 5th February 1996.
    #avgeek #planespotting #potd #cosford #egwc #museum #bristol #britannia #boac

  8. On This Day 2020-02-05.
    G-APAS, De Haviland DH-106 Comet 1XB, in BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation colours, on display at RAF Cosford Aerospace Museum, 5th February 1996.
    #avgeek #planespotting #otd #raf #cosford #egwc #museum #deHaviland #dh106 #comet #boac #britishOverseasAirways

  9. Tails 2019-11-11.
    G-AOVF, Bristol 175 Britannia 312F, BOAC, at RAF Museum Cosford, 5th February 1996.
    #avgeek #planespotting #tails #cosford #museum #egwc #bristol #britannia #boac