1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-101, CF-VFU, FIFT. Dockside somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C., Canada in spring 1969.

[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 86125, with Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50-mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319; Kodak Plus-X Pan (ISO 125/22°) 36-exposure black & white negative film]


© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1969 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011





“The whole history of the Canadian North can be divided into two periods—before and after the aeroplane.”
Hugh L. Keenleyside, Deputy Canadian Minister of Mines and Resources, October 1949




Wednesday, May 2, 2012

1965 Douglas DC-9-14, c/n 45712/006, G-BMAH, The Florentine Diamond, BMA—British Midland Airways

1965 Douglas DC-9-14, c/n 45712/006, G-BMAH, The Florentine Diamond, BMA—British Midland Airways (British Midland Airways Limited), Donington Hall, Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, Derby, England; powered by two 14,000-lbs thrust Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7A low-bypass turbofan engines; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration CY80, short- to medium-range, mid-size, narrow-body airliner; built by Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, USA at Long Beach, California; only the sixth DC-9 off the production line; completed on July 6, 1965; first flight on July 6, 1965; CF-TLC, “702”, Air Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada on January 6, 1966; N1792U, McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, California on September 5, 1968; N1792U, Trans-Texas Airways, Houston, Texas on September 27, 1968, leased from McDonnell Douglas Corp.; N1792U, Texas International Airlines, Houston, Texas on April 1, 1969, transferred; N1792U, McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, California on April 2, 1969, returned; N1792U, Texas International Airlines, Houston, Texas on June 9, 1969, leased from McDonnell Douglas Corp.; N1792U, McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, California on December 18, 1969; N1792U, Southern Airways, Atlanta, Georgia on December 22, 1969, leased from McDonnell Douglas Corp.; OH-LYB, Finnair (Finnair Oyj), Helsinki, Finland on February 13, 1971; G-BGWP, BMA—British Midland Airways, Donington Hall, Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, Derby, not taken up; OH-LYB, named Darley Dale on September 3, 1977, named Merseyside in 1978, BMA—British Midland Airways, Donington Hall, Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, Derby on September 3, 1977, leased from Finnair; OH-LYB, Finnair, Helsinki on December 31, 1979, returned; G-BMAH, The Florentine Diamond, BMA—British Midland Airways, Donington Hall, Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, Derby on June 24, 1983, leased from Finnair; G-BMAH, The Florentine Diamond, British Midland, Donington Hall, Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, Derby on September 24, 1986; bought by Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland on January 12, 1988 and leased back to British Midland; G-BMAH, Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services, Dublin, Leinster on November 15, 1995, returned; HK-4056X, Inter (Intercontinental de Aviación SA), Bogotá, D.C., Columbia on December 8, 1995; withdrawn from use and stored at Eldorado International Airport (BOG), Bogotá, D.C. in September 1997; scrapped at Eldorado International Airport (BOG), Bogotá, D.C. in September 2003.

From a starboard window aboard 1984 Boeing 737-236(A), c/n 23165/1064, G-BKYG, River Exe, British Airways. Signage on grass between runway and taxiway marked 68–0 | 67–0”, RUNWAY AHEAD”, and 67–0 | 83”, London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Hillingdon, London, England on Sunday, August 16, 1987.

[1984 Nikon FE2 SLR 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 1816483, with Nikkor AI 50-mm f/1.8 lens, s/n 2336591, and 52-mm polarizing filter; Kodak Gold Super 200 36-exposure colour negative film]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, August 1987

No comments:

Post a Comment