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- Location
- Cheshire UK
- Name
- Dennis
Visiting Duxford with a friend and former colleague and we were both reminded of our old age when we saw FU hanging from the ceiling.
Employed by the then Board of Trade , we had both spent some time in the right hand seat of this de Havilland Dove during our training and were reminded how time flies by!
As a callow youth I'd flown in a large silver Handley Page Hastings like the one in the background - a lumbering piston transport with a 3000 mile range.
And then my wife and I went on our first package holiday in a de Havilland Comet 4 like the BOAC aircraft here ; even today I think that it was just as quiet and comfortable as a modern jet.
The G1X worked very well but the two of us left feeling like museum exhibits ourselves.
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Employed by the then Board of Trade , we had both spent some time in the right hand seat of this de Havilland Dove during our training and were reminded how time flies by!
As a callow youth I'd flown in a large silver Handley Page Hastings like the one in the background - a lumbering piston transport with a 3000 mile range.
And then my wife and I went on our first package holiday in a de Havilland Comet 4 like the BOAC aircraft here ; even today I think that it was just as quiet and comfortable as a modern jet.
The G1X worked very well but the two of us left feeling like museum exhibits ourselves.