Author Topic: So what hasn't visited Belfast? (Read 68700 times)

Angry Turnip · « **Reply #25 on:** January 17, 2015, 09:09:51 PM »

Quote from: NISPOT on January 17, 2015, 07:18:44 PM

For 737-600 I have OE-LNM Boeing 737-6Z9 of Lauda Air visiting BFS on 29/01/2005

Oh,yes I remember that one,it had a Tyrol Mountain scheme.

Angry Turnip · « **Reply #26 on:** January 17, 2015, 09:15:48 PM »

Quote from: Teebee on January 17, 2015, 08:03:29 PM

Hi guys,

Love this thread

Mention of the Beluga and Yak-42 took me back! I've attached mp3 recordings of the Beluga heading home and the Yak arriving. The Yak file also has a few other callsigns people might find interesting including an Easy 737-300 and a British Midland Fokker 100

That`s UAS Chairman Ray Burrows controling in the 2nd clip.

jasT1981 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 17, 2015, 10:23:56 PM »

The A318 is a regular into Shannon with BA for refueling before heading off to JFK. Possible divert someday to Belfast?

OldBanditDriver · « **Reply #28 on:** January 18, 2015, 09:52:17 AM »

That ain't Ray B doing the controlling on the second clip, although it does sound a bit like him.

hammerhead · « **Reply #29 on:** January 18, 2015, 11:03:04 AM »

Quote from: jasT1981 on January 17, 2015, 10:23:56 PM

The A318 is a regular into Shannon with BA for refueling before heading off to JFK. Possible divert someday to Belfast?

I doubt it will ever use Belfast as that flight has to use the US Customs at Shannon and would need to use Dublin to still have that service.

Angry Turnip · « **Reply #30 on:** January 18, 2015, 11:56:58 AM »

Quote from: OldBanditDriver on January 18, 2015, 09:52:17 AM

That ain't Ray B doing the controlling on the second clip, although it does sound a bit like him.

Feel free to disagree,but RB`s voice is very distinctive,and I have known him for years.
Not that it really matters much,just a point of interest.

OldBanditDriver · « **Reply #31 on:** January 18, 2015, 12:30:25 PM »

Angry T

I too have known Ray, for over 35 years in my case; for a lot of that time I had the pleasure of being controlled by him, both at Sydenham (I don't think it was called Belfast City, then), and at Aldergrove. So, I do know how his voice sounds, especially on VHF.

And the second clip ain't him.

It is another controller, also retired, Alan L.

The controller on the first clip is another old friend, Bill A, who has sadly left Aldergrove ATC and now lives abroad.

Not that it really matters, just a point of interest, as you say.....

Angry Turnip · « **Reply #32 on:** January 18, 2015, 12:49:16 PM »

Fair enough,maybe they were all trained to sound the same.

smudge · « **Reply #33 on:** January 18, 2015, 01:15:32 PM »

Another one we haven't seen in Belfast is a 777-300, nor an A340-600. But I'm not sure we want to go down the rat-hole of variants

Merlin · « **Reply #34 on:** January 18, 2015, 03:42:03 PM »

Quote from: smudge on January 18, 2015, 01:15:32 PM

Another one we haven't seen in Belfast is a 777-300, nor an A340-600. But I'm not sure we want to go down the rat-hole of variants

When Angela Merkel was over for the G8 she flew in on an A340.

Granted it was [according to Google] a 300 variant but still

AERTANK · « **Reply #35 on:** January 18, 2015, 08:09:43 PM »

No Tu-144? An-22? Kawasaki C-1? Boeing 747SP?

Paultojo · « **Reply #36 on:** January 18, 2015, 08:16:09 PM »

Quote from: AERTANK on January 18, 2015, 08:09:43 PM

No Tu-144? An-22? Kawasaki C-1? Boeing 747SP?

An-22 has Feb 2004

an-22 by Paul J Harvey 750k views cheers, on Flickr

smudge · « **Reply #37 on:** January 18, 2015, 08:38:11 PM »

Didn't we have that Air Ulster Tu-144 on the run down to Dublin?

*joke*

Also no NAMC YS-11...

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Angry Turnip · « **Reply #38 on:** January 18, 2015, 11:42:34 PM »

That AN-22 is one brute I would have loved to see,I was off work at the airport that day and didn`t know it was coming in-not impressed when I found out I`d missed it.

It must have left some serious smoke trails and the noise

Maybe we will get one in again,you never know.

smudge · « **Reply #39 on:** January 19, 2015, 09:56:40 AM »

Quote from: OldBanditDriver on January 17, 2015, 06:02:18 PM

I remember seeing a Nord Noratlas 9XR-KD (Rwandan registered) at BFS in the 70's.....

The registration prefix fascinated me and I have a partial explanation...

In 1962 9X_ was issued to Rwanda as its international radio callsign prefix, so it made sense to also adopt it as the aircraft reg prefix.

Code: [Select]

9XA-9XZ Rwandese Republic 
...... 9X Rwanda (ITU Zone 52 CQ Zone 36) [lat -2 long 30.1] {start 7/1/62}

Not sure why they selected 'R' as the subset for aircraft. Perhaps the distinction is internal to Rwanda, so they know immediately if a particular callsign relates to an aircraft or other station.

Paultojo · « **Reply #40 on:** January 28, 2015, 10:08:47 PM »

I knew I had this somewhere your YAK-42 crashed about 4 weeks after this was taken

UM Air BFS by Paul J Harvey 750k views cheers, on Flickr

Angry Turnip · « **Reply #41 on:** January 28, 2015, 11:23:20 PM »

Interesting shots-I remember the accident involving the Yak-42 aircraft.

It crashed 2003 in Turkey in severe fog conditions;it was bringing Spanish troops home from Afghanistan,it was attempting to land to re-fuel.

smudge · « **Reply #42 on:** September 18, 2015, 04:39:22 PM »

A date for the Dan-Air 262 visit:

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a Manchester to Aldergrove newspaper charter on the night of December 18 1970

Airymouse · « **Reply #43 on:** September 18, 2015, 10:19:37 PM »

Here's one that should be recognised as an aircraft that should have visited but did not

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Sneaky_Nikon · « **Reply #44 on:** September 18, 2015, 11:48:34 PM »

Learfan. Up in mum's there's a solid lump of whatever it was supposed to be made out of cut into a generally Learfan-y shape.

That old blue hangar at Aldergrove was theirs.

smudge · « **Reply #45 on:** September 19, 2015, 06:18:59 AM »

Ah, the De Lorean of aviation.

When Learavia secured funding for the production line at Aldergrove they scuppered plans by another company to move the Grumman light aircraft line into the same building. Whatever happened to that, I wonder.

Update: apparently having failed to find a new production facility, construction of all the AA / Grumman / Gulfstream light aircraft ended in 1979. What a missed opportunity. Instead, a chap called Jim Cox bought the rights and equipment from Gulfstream in 1987 and moved 38 trialer-loads of jigs and tools to Greenville, Mississippi in 1989. AA-5 production restarted there in 1990.

Airymouse · « **Reply #46 on:** September 19, 2015, 09:02:30 AM »

That Lear Fan (Prototype?) was photographed outside the EAA Museum at Oshkosh Wisconsin, some years ago. It is probably still there.

skyking · « **Reply #47 on:** September 19, 2015, 11:23:04 AM »

LN-FOS Curtiss Commando C-46R of Fred Olsen visited Aldergrove on 17/04/1971

skyking · « **Reply #48 on:** September 19, 2015, 11:30:40 AM »

And an Air Inter Nord 262 F-BLHT visited 16/06/1971

Things would be a whole lot quicker if my old logs were on a computer!!

skyking · « **Reply #49 on:** September 19, 2015, 02:15:49 PM »

Quote from: skyking on September 19, 2015, 11:30:40 AM

And an Air Inter Nord 262 F-BLHT visited 16/06/1971

Things would be a whole lot quicker if my old logs were on a computer!!

This one had an 'interesting' ending end... http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19731112-0

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Author Topic: So what hasn't visited Belfast? (Read 68700 times)