Interesting vans
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:49 am
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Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:05 pm
Yes courtline, one of the first budget airlines , ran out of luton airport went bust in about 1974 ,at the time i worked at the vauxhall apprentice school next to the airport,used to watch the air hosteses drive by ,one had a tweed grey mk1 s and regulation mini skirt. Ahh those were the days
Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:44 pm
I would love to get my hands on those wing mirrors.
Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 7:43 am
I'm sure I saw a NEW pair on ebay last week. I'll try and find them if you're after some.
Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:59 am
I remember going to Ibiza on a Courtline Comet in the very early 1970's.
It had a salmon pink interior if I remember right.
M
It had a salmon pink interior if I remember right.
M
Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 10:52 am
you must have been an old clarksons holidays customer eh mark? 
ian.
ian.Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 10:56 am
mk1 wrote:I remember going to Ibiza on a Courtline Comet in the very early 1970's.
It had a salmon pink interior if I remember right.
M
where comets not from the 1950's?
Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:20 am
They most certainly were!
The scene as I left the aerodrome
I am so incredibly old that I have flown as a regular paying passenger on the worlds first jet powered passenger plane.
F me, I really am as old as you try to make me out to be
M
The scene as I left the aerodrome
I am so incredibly old that I have flown as a regular paying passenger on the worlds first jet powered passenger plane.
F me, I really am as old as you try to make me out to be
M
Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:22 am
yes rich, you are right, it was only people who went on budget holidays that flew in them! fred scuttle was the chief pilot for that crowd then. ian.
ian.Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:10 pm
mk1 wrote:They most certainly were!
The scene as I left the aerodrome
I am so incredibly old that I have flown as a regular paying passenger on the worlds first jet powered passenger plane.
F me, I really am as old as you try to make me out to be
M
and you lived to tell the story
thats the early type, with the square windows, wasnt that the one that broke while flying ?
something to do with metal fateque around the square windows, or something like that.
Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:29 am
You are correct. It was the corners of the square windows that propogated cracks that were the undoing of the first comets. Or it was the Americans sabotaging the project because they didn't like little old britain having the best jet airliner in the world. You can believe whichever version you want
Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:04 pm
I do believe they were superseded by the NIMROD 
Re: Interesting vans
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:11 pm