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Excellent old-school airline blog (Read 283 times)

Jan 27^th, 2010 at 9:21pm

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If you love piston and early jet airliners, you will want to check this out! Beware: you will get sucked in... Grin

http://propspistonsandoldairliners.blogspot.com/

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Reply #1 - Jan 28^th, 2010 at 4:44am

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beaky wrote on Jan 27^th, 2010 at 9:21pm:

! Beware: you will get sucked in... Grin

Whoops. Just did! Now I'm going to be late for work [edit: no I'm not. Just discovered that my car keys may well be in Mrs C's car, and she's out!].

If only BOAC had got their 42 VC10s...

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Reply #2 - Jan 28^th, 2010 at 5:08am

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Some great bits leap off the page:

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A rough estimate of the cost of flying a VC10 on training, covering only such items as fuel, oil, landing fees, maintenance and spares, etc, comes to about £300 to £360 per hour

£300 to £360/hr? What would that get you now?

The latter day figure would be similar, but with an extra pair of 00s on the end!

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Reply #3 - Jan 28^th, 2010 at 9:54am