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Here is a memory that Jack Morath, Social Director for LHR Pionairs, sent to the members -
I remember when the company brought over the DC-8 to London (LHR) on a trial flight, and we were asked for volunteers to take a ride for an hour to the North of England. I was working in the Import Cargo area at the time on the North side of the airport, and as it was only a short distance from home, I used to cycle each way. When I went home at lunchtime I told Mum and Dad about my flight as I didn't know about it before I left in the morning. After flying in a propeller aircraft, the flight was so smooth we couldn't believe it. I remember placing a three penny piece on the seat table and it didn't fall over. Amazing! |
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Alan Evans, living in South Africa, sends this memory - Here is a grand old picture of a Hawker-Siddeley 748 demonstrator at beautiful DF Malan airport in Cape Town in 1969. Great aircraft on which I flew 3000 odd hours way back in 1960-70 in the West Indies. It was a close replacement for the DC-3, a real work horse. Editors' note: the Viscount on the ramp and the backdrop of Table Mountain. |
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I, as Terry might recall, was with them for 6 years. We went bankrupt in 1974. Here is an HS748 in LIAT colours. |
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Editors' note: We checked and found this information - Failed LIAT To Be Reborn As LIAT 2020 Ltd with US $15-20 Million Investment. The airline (officially registered as LIAT (1974) Ltd) which carried a debt of EC $12 million (US $4.4 million) in 2019, finally reached the end of the road as Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne announced that the airline would need to be liquidated, but insisted that a new airline would need to take its place to maintain connectivity within the Caribbean. (Source: www.gatechecked.com/liat-2020-ltd-3185) |
