A rare bird

[Dork the kit slayer]

This Spanish airforce  707 was parked @ Malaga airport yesterday. I could only gat a couple of quick shots (through) glass as we boarded the flight home.
I dont think there are many still flying with the original engines. 

I bet when it took off it would have looked like it was coal burning.

[PR19_Kit]

I dont think there are many still flying with the original engines. 

I bet when it took off it would have looked like it was coal burning.

I used to relish watching the DAS Air Cargo 707s depart fro m Gatwick while I was waiting to fly out on Northwest's DC10-40 flight to Minneapolis.

The 707 was maybe 20 miles away before its smoke trail cleared, and 4-5 following flights had to climb out through it. I bet the second one after it was in IMC from brakes off! 

[Dork the kit slayer]

  ;DShades of the EC-135 that started the Mildenhall shows. What was the quote when men thought you could burn water.

[Captain Canada]

Lovely. That would be a sight and sound to see ! I stopped in at Trenton to watch a Polaris do some go arounds. Nice, but nothing like the days of watching the red and white, Lightning striped old school 707 do it !

[Dork the kit slayer]

 Try this Captn.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vHkTxavNNs

[PR19_Kit]

Try this Captn.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vHkTxavNNs

Cough, cough, splutter.

I hate to think how much Road Tax he has to pay on that! 

[Dork the kit slayer]

Not that much Kit,I hear VW assessed the carbon emissions 

[JayBee]

When I was a very young trainee cadet ATCO at Glasgow, I remember one day clearing the Icelandair B727 for take-off for Keflavick, and then watching his trail all the way to almost 59N010W, well NW of the Western Isles. AH wonderfull smokey days.

[Dork the kit slayer]

Magic days JayBee,magic days.

[PR19_Kit]

Going even further back, my brother and I used to ride our bikes over to Brize Norton from our house in Oxford to watch the B-47s and KC-135s there, sometimes B-36s too. 

The B-47s and KC-135s used to produce HORRENDOUS amounts of smoke on take-off, and we always hoped they'd fire some JATO bottles on the B-47s, but they never did, spoilsports.