You don't see this anymore.

[Jack B]

Originally Posted by Noel White

Question for the BOAC experts in the group re the first photo in this threat.

The photo shows a BOAC B707 with what appears to be noise suppressors fitted to the engines not unlike the ones fitted to the first first Qantas B707-138s. I was always under the impression that BOAC's B707s were fitted with RR Conways, the same type used on their VC10s. I know that the Conways were very noisy (Hush Power ha ha) but can't remember if they were fitted with noise suppressors. Any thoughts?

There were differences between the conways on the 707, VC10 and DC-8-40

The turbojet variants of the 707-100/200/300 and the turbofan 707-400 all had the fairly primitive noise suppreossors.

[Jack B]

Especially love that shot of the Standard VC10 taxiing. I'm not sure if many Standards visited Sydney. They can be distinguished from the Super as the L2 door is located before the wing, instead of behind

[Marty H]

Maybe someone can help me (since were on the topic of the past) I flew with BA in 1987 Im after the regos of the aircraft all I can recall was the names of the aircraft which were City of London and City of Cardiff I flew ADL-SYD-SIN-Muscat-LHR 12/01/87 on City of London and LHR-BKK-SYD-MEL-ADL on around the 10/2/87 on City of Cardiff

Cheers.

[Paul f.]

Great shots, please post some more better than crap on the kid,s sites Jetphotos and Airliners net etc.

[Anthony T]

Here's a few Viscounts the first two at the Essendon dumpsite :







Cheers

[Anthony T]

Hi there

I have got hold of the domain oldairlinerimages.com, so all current & future scans will go there, once I have worked out how to do it. Is there a VERY simple way of allowing the visitor to find what they maybe looking for, eventually the site could have up to 3000 scans.

I'll let the board know when it up the site is up and running (hopefully by Sunday)

Cheers and happy new year

Anthony

[Grahame Hutchison]

Thanks for all the work Anthony, I know how much time it takes to work through thousands of old photogaphs, scanning them and then uploading.

Appreciate your effort, it's worth it, Happy New Year.

[Pat Stevens]

Brilliant photos. What's also interesting is that nearly 40 years on, it's still taking the same amount of time (even longer?) to travel to some destinations that those beautiful aircraft were flying to. I wonder what things will be like in 2050?

[Anthony T]

Hi there

Many thanks for all the supportive posts.

I wasn't sure if anyone these days would have been really interested, it appears they are.

Maybe in 40 years, if I am still around (planning to be ) I could host some QF A380's on the site.

Cheers
Anthony T

http://www.oldairlinerimages.com

I did think of registering oldairliners.net, but another website might have been a bit miffed.

[Paul Hunter]

Marty,

My records show G-AWNG Boeing 747-136 "City of London"

G-BDXA Boeing 747-236B/RR "City of Cardiff"

Regards.