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




Friday, May 11, 2012

1977 Boeing 747-236B, c/n 21239/302, G-BDXB, City of Liverpool, British Airways


1977 Boeing 747-236B, c/n 21239/302, G-BDXB, City of Liverpool, British Airways, London, England; powered by four 53,000-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce RB211-524D4-B-19 high-bypass turbofan engines; crew of three (pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer), seating configuration F14C64Y298, long-range, wide-body, double-deck airliner; built by The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington, USA at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Everett, Washington; first flight on February 22, 1977, test registration N8280V; G-BDXB, City of Liverpool, British Airways, London on June 16, 1977; G-BDXB, Nigeria Airways (Nigeria Airways Ltd.), Abuja, Nigeria on November 2, 1999, leased; G-BDXB, British Airways, London on August 3, 2000, returned; stored.

I flew aboard the City of Liverpool non-stop from London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Hillingdon, London, England to Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Sunday, August 16, 1987.

In background is 1977 Boeing 747-236B, c/n 21240/305, G-BDXC, City of Manchester, British Airways, London, England; powered by four 53,000-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce RB211-524D4-B-19 high-bypass turbofan engines; crew of three (pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer), seating configuration F14C64Y298, long-range, wide-body, double-deck airliner; built by The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington, USA at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Everett, Washington; first flight on April 8, 1977; G-BDXC, City of Manchester, British Airways, London on June 22, 1977, cancelled in September 2001; tt 100,115 hours, 16,182 landings; G-BDXC, EAC—European Aircharter (European Aviation Air Charter Ltd.), Bournemouth, Dorset, England on March 8, 2002, cancelled in July 2002; scrapped at Cardiff Airport (CWL), Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales on August 18, 2002.



Starboard view of Arctic Canada.





Over northern Canada.

1977 Boeing 747-236B, c/n 21239/302, G-BDXB, City of Liverpool, British Airways having just arrived at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C. in late afternoon or early evening (?).

[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

1 comment:

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