BAC 1-11 ride anyone?

[Dont call me Shirley]

http://www.classicjettours.com/bac111.html

This was already posted over in the aviation chatter page (sorry, mods!). Though I'd list it here since Allegheney /USAir was big operator of the type. This is not a cheap date, folks. I sure can't spend that much. But it does look like fun!

When did these planes leave the fleet? Sometime in '89 or so?
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=%3D%28%22bac+111+one-eleven%22+OR+%22british+aerospace+bac-111+one-eleven%22+OR+%22bucuresti+rombac+1-11+one-eleven%22%29&airlinesearch=%3A%28%22allegheny+airlines%22+OR+%22%28allegheny+airlines%29%22%29&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&thumbnails=

 

[rvolkcpa]

http://www.classicjettours.com/bac111.html

This was already posted over in the aviation chatter page (sorry, mods!). Though I'd list it here since Allegheney /USAir was big operator of the type. This is not a cheap date, folks. I sure can't spend that much. But it does look like fun!

When did these planes leave the fleet? Sometime in '89 or so?
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=%3D%28%22bac+111+one-eleven%22+OR+%22british+aerospace+bac-111+one-eleven%22+OR+%22bucuresti+rombac+1-11+one-eleven%22%29&airlinesearch=%3A%28%22allegheny+airlines%22+OR+%22%28allegheny+airlines%29%22%29&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&thumbnails=

My first flight ever was on a Braniff BAC 1-11 in 1966. I was expecting a big plane, but it seemed like a bus with wings.

 

[2BorNot2B]

My first flight ever was on a Braniff BAC 1-11 in 1966. I was expecting a big plane, but it seemed like a bus with wings.

...and hence the name "Airbus" was born!! Brilliant!!

But never was a bus built that sounded like THE ROCKET !!

 

[CV580ETOPS]

...and hence the name "Airbus" was born!! Brilliant!!

But never was a bus built that sounded like THE ROCKET !!

You folks ever get tired of living in the past ?

cv

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

You folks ever get tired of living in the past ?

cv

This from somone with CV580 in his handle?

 

[HPearlyretiree]

I'd love to fly on that one. I had a chance a few years ago to fly on a YS-11, but the airline was very dodgy (Phuket Air) and I had some misgivings. But then I flew the equally dodgy Lao Airlines (but it was a semi new ATR-72)

 

[Pi brat]

This from somone with CV580 in his handle?

ZING!!!!!!!

 

[prechilill]

You folks ever get tired of living in the past ?

cv

No, they do not.

 

[767one]

You folks ever get tired of living in the past ?

cv

I flew both the cv580 and the bac111. They had one thing in common that is an improvement over any airplane we fly now....they both had no overhead storage other than a hatrack at least until they put overhead bins in the 111 so you didn't have tons of baggage hanging over your head. Not forgetting the past is not the same as living in the past.

Bob

 

[Nordictom]

http://www.classicjettours.com/bac111.html

This was already posted over in the aviation chatter page (sorry, mods!). Though I'd list it here since Allegheney /USAir was big operator of the type. This is not a cheap date, folks. I sure can't spend that much. But it does look like fun!

When did these planes leave the fleet? Sometime in '89 or so?
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=%3D%28%22bac+111+one-eleven%22+OR+%22british+aerospace+bac-111+one-eleven%22+OR+%22bucuresti+rombac+1-11+one-eleven%22%29&airlinesearch=%3A%28%22allegheny+airlines%22+OR+%22%28allegheny+airlines%29%22%29&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&thumbnails=

That would be nice to fly in one of those again.
I remember loading the bags in those, PITA, it was like working in a coffin.

NT

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

Great period photo, especially for those stuck in the past...

 

[2BorNot2B]

You folks ever get tired of living in the past ?

cv

The past was so much better than the present! I even enjoyed the CV-440 more than the 580!!

2B