British Caledonian Website

[Mossie]

For anyone with an interest in airliners, there's a pretty good website on British Caledonian here:
http://www.british-caledonian.com/

The main reason I mention it here though is there are quite a few whiffy articles on what-might-have-been, poposed types, liveries and such.  You'll have to trawl through to find them an right-click has been canceled so I can't post pics.  A selection:

Silver City helicopters:  http://www.british-caledonian.com/Silver_City_Helicopters.html

The BCal livery that neve was:  http://www.british-caledonian.com/BCal_The_Livery_that_never_was.html

BCal If Only..... in 2020:  http://www.british-caledonian.com/BCal_If_Only...in_2020.html

Simon

[Martin H]

just wait till kit See's that little lot. He will love it.

[Mossie]

I was thinking of Kit when I saw it.

[PR19_Kit]

just wait till kit See's that little lot. He will love it.

I was thinking of Kit when I saw it.

You're both correct. 

Thanks very much, LOTS of good stuff in there and I've never heard of the site before. I love that car ferry helicopter, like a rotary winged Fairchild Pack Plane. 

[kitnut617]

Seeing that tartan tailed scheme reminds me of this WestJet scheme which was done for the inaugural Scotland flight. I see it quite often at YYC

http://airlinersgallery.smugmug.com/Airlines-Canada/Westjet-Airlines/i-6jPdQMf/0/M/WestJet%20737-700%20WL%20C-GQWJ%20(15-Tartan%20Tail)(Grd)%20YYC%20(CSD)(46)-M.jpg

[PR19_Kit]

Oooh, that's smart! 

Do you mean to tell me that they fly from the middle of Canada to Scotland in a 737??? 

[kitnut617]

To be accurate, Calgary is at the beginning of the last 1/8th of Canada  (there's only 700 miles to the west coast as opposed to 5000 going east)  

But to answer your query, no they don't. They do a couple of fuel stops I think, Toronto then Gander, WestJet do flights to Ireland too, but the Scottish flight is a fairly recent addition.

[Weaver]

The Silver City helicopter projects (there's more than one way to download an image... ) :

[jcf]

Those truly are aesthetically challenged. 

The two-part machine is completely bonkers. 
We can't be arsed to build a stalking landing gear so we'll just fly the mechanical bits over
and plop'em on.

[kerick]

You would never get that to work in gusty winds! Drop a cable and winch the two pieces together.

[Dizzyfugu]

Oooh, that's smart! 

Do you mean to tell me that fly from the middle of Canada to Scotland in a 737??? 

An Airbus A318 can fly from London to New York (but NOT the bigger versions...  :rolleyes):, so Scotland to the Canadian East coast should be easily feasible with a simlar aircraft, too.

[PR19_Kit]

The Chinook meets the Fairchild Pack Plane. 

(Which it seems I already said 5 years ago..............  )

[Martin H]

going back to that BCal website. TSR Joe pointed this page out to me a while back.

[PR19_Kit]

going back to that BCal website. TSR Joe pointed this page out to me a while back.

Blimey, who'd have thought it? 

You learn something new etc.  etc.