Originally Posted by Gabriel1

Which channel was this on, I'd like to see this as well.

The Archangel

BBC 4. There have been 2 programmes so far. They are most evocative. I remember flying out from Heathrow North on the BOAC flight to Burma. HN was a collection of military huts!

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Originally Posted by KevinJS

BBC 4 apparently. It's also on YouTube.

YouTube Link: http://youtu.be/EmV6_INb_p0

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Sorry Kevin, I hadn't reached your post when I replied to Gabriel.

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I was researching a camera in my collection, no luck so far.

Well. I'm getting my geek on researching about Temporal Dithering. Don't ask what it is, the boredom will kill you lol.

Originally Posted by Richard Brown

BBC 4. There have been 2 programmes so far. They are most evocative. I remember flying out from Heathrow North on the BOAC flight to Burma. HN was a collection of military huts!

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hi Richard, i enjoyed watching the programmes too on bbc about the British Jet age, i love planes and have been to various plane museums, nearest near my house is the Hendon air museum in Hendon. When you flew out to burma when heathrow was still basic was it a de Havilland comet like in the picture below, it is the first jet commercial aircraft in the world and its british, however the american took over with theor boeing 707 when the comet had structural issues

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:De...pic_2_REJS.jpg

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A plane like this i meant, sorry Richard , having trouble with the pictures link posting

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Hi GK. no, we didn't travel on a Comet.

For our first trip to and from Burma, we went by DC 4 Argonaut. The trip took more than 1 day with about 9 stops em route.

The Argonaut photograph from Wikipedia.



The Wiki article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_North_Star

For our second trip, we flew out by Bristol Britannia. My brother and I had our return flights delayed thanks to illness. We returned with Pan Am. The air stewardesses loved talking with the brothers with their English accents!

Isn't the Hendon museum great. I have been there twice. The first time for the wake of a good friend who was an authority on air raft and had co-authored lots of books on aircraft. Ray was an expert on the Spitfire.

The second visit was one which I organised for a family history society group. We were privileged to see behind the scenes in the research library, and to handle original log books, maps etc from the Second World War.

My dad was in the aviation business. Like you, I have a love of aircraft. I wish I had learned to fly.

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Good Karma and others,

I was researching bits of BOAC's history in relation to my boyhood memories. I came across a great website with super short stories. http://betteronacamel.com/

Enjoy

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Laundry

Originally Posted by scifan57

Laundry

Me too!