Sixty Years Ago.

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes, QANTAS from Singapore to Perth April 1960 to joi9n Bermuda Trader

Oh yes QUANTAS
queers and nyphomaniacs taken as stewards.

[vic mcclymont]

Sixty years ago, the UK had two TV channels. Phone lines were shared. No broadband no computers.
No Radio 1, 2 etc.
Pubs shut at 22:00 hours
TV shut down at23:00 hours.
regards
Vic

[j.sabourn]

And Mary Whitehouse stood up and preached the morals of the day. Most. Of us have seen the most rapid changes in history and hate it or love it, it's here to stay, until other near morons get into seats of power to change things to their way of liking. Today's generation have never seen the results of war or been on the receiving end of it. Two world wars were fought to stop such occurrences happening, but as usual no one in politics learns through experience as boys and girls take up these seats of power. The world all over different places are at different levels of evolution and the alphabet soup doesn't gel. The idea of a UN was good, but they don't have the moral fibre to carry any warnings through, so we will always be stuck with a world at war somewhere on the planet. Anyhow it makes news for the press to print and sell papers. JWS
#20... Kaapstad.

[j.sabourn]

68 years ago I had the privilege of flying a link trainer at Ouston RAF station which as everyone should know never leaves the ground, also had the privilege of making this machine unworkable. Banished to the parachuting packing plant where they wouldn't let me pack a chute. The rifle I carried was a p17 a world war 1 USA rifle .300 calbre which was nearly as big as me, I preferred the sten with 32 rounds . Couldn't understand in the movies how they kept on firing for ever,. Wasn't too enamoured with the ATC after the Army cadets. So tried the Sea Cadets next. Didn't like all the rowing in the whalers. Got blisters on the hands. Cheers JWS

[happy daze john in oz]

There has been more changes to every aspect of our lives in the past 50 years than in all the time mankind has been on this planet.

Yet more to come and by the middle of this century if we were to come back we would consider it all to be some form of science fiction.

My first flight was from Portsmouth airfield, a grass strip with a shed for a terminal, to Jersey in 1966.
A DC3 that had no mod con what so ever and had been used as a parachute drop aircraft at some time and still had the running line for the chutes in place.

[robpage]

No an airfield now , its an industrial estate

[Keith Tindell]

Marion , i love to say to people when we are talking of flying *when i was on Concourde*, when they say usually wow, i then let them know it was at Duckford air display, grounded i might add. It is the original one and was used for all the tests, full of test gear. However what i was surprised of was how small the passenger section was, . kt

[Fouro]

Marion , i love to say to people when we are talking of flying *when i was on Concourde*, when they say usually wow, i then let them know it was at Duckford air display, grounded i might add. It is the original one and was used for all the tests, full of test gear. However what i was surprised of was how small the passenger section was, . kt

It beggars belief how threads within this Topic have changed from a Connie powered by piston engines to a Supersonic Connie powered by jet engines.

The Concorde 002 was the second prototype of this Anglo-French aircraft. OO2 was assembled in Britain and made her maiden flight from the British Aircraft Corporation's plant at Fulton, Bristol in April 1969.
Concorde 001 was the first French prototype and flew from Toulouse, in France a month earlier in March 1969.
The main purpose of Concorde 002 was to act as a test and development aircraft for the fleet of 16 Concordes that were to be built for Air France and British Airways.
On completion of her test programme, 002 arrived at RNAS Yeovilton in 1976 and has been on permanent display there ever since.
I have been to both Duxford and Yeovilton museums several times, but I'm not sure which Concorde is on display at Duxford.

Fouro.

[Peter F Chard]

I flew on the '' Comet " several times, massive power at take off, you felt as if someone was giving you a huge push in the back. Also the Lockheed " Electra ", I now know where the saying '' On the wing of a prayer '' came from !! The last time was a rough landing at Tokyo when we landed on landing gear that had not fully extended and just collapsed at touchdown !! We had to spend the night at an Airport hotel, top class but a bit scary -- two good earthquake shakes during the night and my mattress with me on top found myself airborne ! Regards Peter in NZ.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi All
My first flight, from the roof of the shed, type of aircraft, cape, distance flown; six feet, type of landing, heavy, result one broken collar bone. Since then twice from Aus to the UK and back, unlimited NZ to Aus and back.
Cheers Des