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Watched the first couple of episodes of this - Based in 1963 it was beautifully rendered (especially in HD) - some good mix of CGI (Sirkosky H34 lifting off from Pan Am's Manhattan HQ roof) - and apparently a full scale model of a Boeing 707. Loads of classic cars. A couple out of their time and some strange number plates on a London Taxi. Won't be watching much of it again I reckon though.
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Always had a thing for trolley dollys. They do seem to have, shall we say, relaxed the criteria for them a bit though in recent times. I'm far too old and much too married now anyway so it doesn't really matter I suppose.
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>> Always had a thing for trolley dollys. They do seem to have, shall we say,
>> relaxed the criteria for them a bit though in recent times. I'm far too old
>> and much too married now anyway so it doesn't really matter I suppose.
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Even the Virgin Airways cart tarts are getting a bit stringy.
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we downloaded the first two episodes a month or so back, as you say wonderfully set and glossily produced, but very thin on characters, plot or script.
My Son could not believe that Pan Am was the biggest, most glamorous airline in the world, that Boeing slavishly doffed their caps to them and asked what aircraft they would like them to build, and it it went quickly to the dogs and no-one batted an eyelid when it disappeared.
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You'll just have to hope she hasn't got some buddies with cameras on the highways and byways of the home counties I guess...
Second thoughts, you'd have to be pretty determined to get that thing much past a speed limit so I s'pose it'll not matter really...
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Edit, Horlicks ! Wrong thread !
:-(
Last edited by: Humph D'Bout on Thu 17 Nov 11 at 17:06
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The Pan Am documentary was pretty good - Shame the Comet was so crap though.
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I remember the Dan Air Comets being called "Dan Dare" flights
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My sister flew to Berlin on a BEA Comet - my request for her room was met with a stony silence.
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>> My sister flew to Berlin on a BEA Comet - my request for her room
>> was met with a stony silence.
I hope the wife doesn't allow you to cook?
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I flew on a Dan Dare Comet 4B, such a graceful looking piece of kit, specially in Dan Dare livery.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dan-Air_Comet.jpg
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They were pretty planes and even the much modified Nimrod always managed to shine through - the 4Bs onwards were "safe" so to speak. Unknown to the designers of course the buried engines were accidental stealth heroes.
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I'm sure I had a Dinky or Corgi one. Comet I mean. BOAC livery I want to think. Certainly had a Concorde. I lived near Turnhouse airport as a kid and saw one of the very first Concorde flights when they came up with it one day for a test flight. Totally smitten with it at the time. They used to have Lightnings and Vulcans there too sometimes when it was an RAF base. We used to sneak in and lie on our backs in the long grass at the end of the runway so that the jets would pass directly over us. Got into trouble for that a few times but it was sort of worth it when a pilot stood a Lightning on it's 'arris on afterburners straight above you. One of the best noises you could ever hear. Didn't do us any lasting harm. Eh, what, pardon?!...
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I flicked across channels to watch it twice in the first ad breaks in Grand Designs. In the first part I saw a stressed out stewardess running onto a plane across a glass sided sky bridge - not mobile steps. What - early 1960s ? In the second ad break I saw what was clearly a studio mock-up of the interior of a plane - the interior was very oversized with plenty of room to move around.
Accurate ? Hm.... not for me thank you.
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Another "issue" was a British character using the phrase "patch through" when transferring a telephone call for one of them.
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>> I flew on a Dan Dare Comet 4B,>>
Likewise, to and from Ibiza many years ago. The return flight was delayed for 12 hours due to the incoming aircraft suffering a lightning strike, Ibiza airport was like a beach cafe in those days, I went back there in '99 and it was glass and chrome like most others.
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I remember people saying they were going to "eye-buy-za" or "madge-orka"
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>> I remember people saying they were going to "eye-buy-za" or "madge-orka"
In my dialect they went to ee-beef-her
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>> In my dialect they went to ee-beef-her
In the ball-earaches isn't it? Near the island named after the famous workers' hero, Foreman-tearer.
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As far as I recall Majorca always used to be pronounced with a J sound as in jam. It was one of those foreign places with an anglicised spelling and pronunciation like Florence for Firenze. The Spanish spelling is Mallorca which is pronounced with the ll pronounced with a y sound. It actually makes no sense to spell it in the English manner and pronounce it in the Spanish.
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Reading the Wiki page it seems that Maiorca might be more correct than Majorca.
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Mayorker in our books ...
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being a welsh speaker you should be able to do spanish,
The J gets thrown back into the throat in a form of grunt.
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>> The J gets thrown back into the throat in a form of grunt.
'I waddled down the red carpet with M'corker on my arm...'
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The late MIL was telling us about a trip to the continent she was taking in the '70s. Said she was getting a boat to Dunkerkee, a place she'd never heard of before. She was born 1920.
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In the late 70`s, 78/79ish I was working on a Dairy unit in Bentworth Hampshire, and Dan-Air had a maintainence Aerodrome at Lasham, (which was the next village to Bentworth).
Our pastures used to back right up to the runways, and i`m sure there were a lot of Comet comings and goings at the time, they also had a couple of Dakotas as well i seem to remember!
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I was on what must have been one of their last flights in a BAC 1-11.
I could see the de-lamination of the glass of the pilots screen as we approached the 'plane. A milky discolouration from the outside, like old moggy minor screens.
I was at the rear of the craft in a window seat and watched as a fillet between an engine and fuselage flapped at cruising speed.
The flight deck announced a 'problem' and we landed at Gatwick instead of Stansted. A gentle, direct glide path from the channel to runway and one of the smoothest touch-downs I've experienced, although there did seem to be a lot of emergency vehicles around!
Almost as worrying as the time they played the theme from 633 squadron for the final approach to Luton airport for a retiring pilot.
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Supposedly true story...
Pan Am's advertising slogan was “The world's most experienced airline”.
A Pan Am jet slid off the edge of the runway at an airport in the US and got stuck in the grass. Some time later a British Airways aircraft taxied past the stricken jet.
The BA pilot came up on the cabin public address:-
“Ladies and gentleman, if you look to right you will see Pan Am, 'The world's most experienced airline', having one of it's experiences.”
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The only story I recall was:-
A PanAm jet was transiting the pond when Concorde was passing by at 60,000 feet.
"Hey BA , what is the weather like up there ?". The response was " Buy one and find out!"
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British Airways pilot disciplined some years ago for the following. "Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Riyadh where the local time is 1500 hrs but put your watches back 50 years"
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Pan Am. - Runfer D'Hills
