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#1 Post by Flame Lily FX » Fri Jun 03, 2016 2:34 pm

Nasty Bitch bent over the kitchen sink!
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

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#2 Post by Capetonian » Fri Jun 03, 2016 3:45 pm

Ah, the lovely, incomparable, beautiful VC10. Was that Embakasi, looked like an EAA VC10 in the foreground?

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#3 Post by Boac » Fri Jun 03, 2016 3:53 pm

Crikey - a thread all to myself.......................... =))

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#4 Post by rgbrock1 » Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:08 pm

For a minute there when I saw the thread title I thought BOAC had snuffed it. Obviously he is still in the land of the living. :D
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#5 Post by Alisoncc » Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:13 pm

rgbrock1 wrote:For a minute there when I saw the thread title I thought BOAC had snuffed it. Obviously he is still in the land of the living. :D

He's not allowed to snuff it. He's one of our fixtures, a life member no less. :)

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#6 Post by Boac » Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:27 pm

Dream on, folks. Just remember, life's a bitch and then you die.:))

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#7 Post by Flame Lily FX » Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:35 pm

I wish I could delete it now.
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#8 Post by Flame Lily FX » Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:37 pm

End of this thread for sure.
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#9 Post by rgbrock1 » Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:53 pm

Boac wrote:Dream on, folks. Just remember, life's a bitch and then you die.:))


Er, or you marry one. :D
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#10 Post by Boac » Fri Jun 03, 2016 5:12 pm

No, Flame - we've had our fun and it's a good'un. It's called 'thread drift'. ^#(^

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#11 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Jun 04, 2016 10:53 am

You are all being cruel to me. Can't watch the video on 3G. Can't see the Queen of the Skies :|
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#12 Post by Flame Lily FX » Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:41 pm

The video is BOAC landing at Lusaka Airport. It looks like someone's home video posted on FB so the link will not convert unless you are on FB.

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#13 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:50 pm

Thank you FL for the '10' fix. Prefered our colour scheme though.
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#14 Post by Flame Lily FX » Sat Jun 04, 2016 1:18 pm

It was the BOAC Standard VC10 landing at Lusaka in 1968 and EAA VC10 on the apron.
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#15 Post by stuart » Sat Jun 04, 2016 2:09 pm

Here's G- ASGL ZD 240 arriving at Filton after ferry flight from storage at Abingdon in 1990 iirc for conversion to a tanker sorry poor quality pic it's taken from a video one of the fitters took.

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#16 Post by Flame Lily FX » Sat Jun 04, 2016 2:48 pm

It used to be a weekly family Sunday afternoon outing to go to Ndola airport, sit on our car bonnet (Zephyr Zodiac for 5 kids) outside the perimeter, to watch the VC10 land. All for free. Simple pleasures. Haha! You try tell the kids to do that today. :O3

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#17 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Jun 04, 2016 5:24 pm

Had to get the log books out. My last flight with 806: Brize-Bruggen-Split-Bruggen-Brize 18/08/93. Flew it often in the Gulf War. Was not one of our Royal/VIP airframes.
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