9J-ADY National Air Charters (Zambia) Cargo Boeing 707-349C landing runway 27L at London Heathrow
9J-ADY one of National Air Charters (Zambia) fleet of two Boeing 707s is seen looking great in the evening sunshine, approaching runway 27L at London Heathrow. By 1986, it was getting very unusual to see the old Boeing 707s at Heathrow - most of the airlines had disposed of their passenger aircraft, and as seen here, the remaining visitors were generally freighters. Great to see a polished bare-metal jet in the 1980s 😎
Memories of a mis-spent youth 😎
By 1986, when I took this shot, I had been making regular forays to my home airport of London Heathrow for ten years... and in that time, my photography had developed from using a primitive Kodak Instamatic (1976-77), through a short period with a borrowed secondhand 35mm (1978-79) to, firstly a secondhand Zenith E + 300mm telephoto lens (1979-80), via a temporary replacement Zenith EM (1980), to my first brand-new camera - a shiny black-bodied "Moscow Olympics" special Zenith TTL, with which I took this photo :)
The summer of '86 - aged 24, and with a new job working in urban ecology, I had less spare time to visit my old haunt of Heathrow airport. However, after getting my old negatives scanned, it appears that I did make a few forays with my Zenith TTL and 300mm telephoto lens. By this time, I had abandoned Kodachrome 64 as a tad too expensive, and was using Kodacolor VR100 or 200 print film.
So over a relatively short period, one August evening in 1986, I shot 20 frames and managed to capture this huge variety of aircraft and airlines:
3x Tu-154s Aeroflot (2 frames), Malev & Balkan
3x B707s TAP cargo, NAC cargo, TMA cargo (2 frames)
2x B727s Pan Am & VIP
2x Airbus Egyptair A300, Swissair A310
1x B737 Aer Lingus
1x B747 JAL (2 frames)
1x TriStar BA
1x BAC1-11 Dan Air
1x F-27 Luxair
1x Saab 340 Manx
1x G2 VIP
Gives you an idea of what Heathrow was like back in the good old 1980s 😎
9J-ADY c/n 19179 (Line No. 500) Boeing 707-373C was delivered new to Flying Tigers as N323F in Oct 1965, but was sold to Aer Lingus in March 1969 as EI-ASN named 'St. Eunan', when Flying Tigers standardised on the DC-8. The aircraft operated with Aer Lingus until Mar 1975 when it was sold to Zambia Airways as 9J-ADY. In Jul 1985, the aircraft was transferred to cargo subsidiary NAC - National Air Charters, along with 9J-AEQ. The aircraft was sold to Trans Arabian Air Transport (Sudan) as ST-ALK in Sep 1988, but was written off when it suffered a nose-gear collapse at Khartoum on 14 July 1990 ending its 25 year flying career.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens, using Kodacolor VR200 print film. Scanned from the original negative without restoration.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
9J-ADY National Air Charters (Zambia) Cargo Boeing 707-349C landing runway 27L at London Heathrow
9J-ADY one of National Air Charters (Zambia) fleet of two Boeing 707s is seen looking great in the evening sunshine, approaching runway 27L at London Heathrow. By 1986, it was getting very unusual to see the old Boeing 707s at Heathrow - most of the airlines had disposed of their passenger aircraft, and as seen here, the remaining visitors were generally freighters. Great to see a polished bare-metal jet in the 1980s 😎
Memories of a mis-spent youth 😎
By 1986, when I took this shot, I had been making regular forays to my home airport of London Heathrow for ten years... and in that time, my photography had developed from using a primitive Kodak Instamatic (1976-77), through a short period with a borrowed secondhand 35mm (1978-79) to, firstly a secondhand Zenith E + 300mm telephoto lens (1979-80), via a temporary replacement Zenith EM (1980), to my first brand-new camera - a shiny black-bodied "Moscow Olympics" special Zenith TTL, with which I took this photo :)
The summer of '86 - aged 24, and with a new job working in urban ecology, I had less spare time to visit my old haunt of Heathrow airport. However, after getting my old negatives scanned, it appears that I did make a few forays with my Zenith TTL and 300mm telephoto lens. By this time, I had abandoned Kodachrome 64 as a tad too expensive, and was using Kodacolor VR100 or 200 print film.
So over a relatively short period, one August evening in 1986, I shot 20 frames and managed to capture this huge variety of aircraft and airlines:
3x Tu-154s Aeroflot (2 frames), Malev & Balkan
3x B707s TAP cargo, NAC cargo, TMA cargo (2 frames)
2x B727s Pan Am & VIP
2x Airbus Egyptair A300, Swissair A310
1x B737 Aer Lingus
1x B747 JAL (2 frames)
1x TriStar BA
1x BAC1-11 Dan Air
1x F-27 Luxair
1x Saab 340 Manx
1x G2 VIP
Gives you an idea of what Heathrow was like back in the good old 1980s 😎
9J-ADY c/n 19179 (Line No. 500) Boeing 707-373C was delivered new to Flying Tigers as N323F in Oct 1965, but was sold to Aer Lingus in March 1969 as EI-ASN named 'St. Eunan', when Flying Tigers standardised on the DC-8. The aircraft operated with Aer Lingus until Mar 1975 when it was sold to Zambia Airways as 9J-ADY. In Jul 1985, the aircraft was transferred to cargo subsidiary NAC - National Air Charters, along with 9J-AEQ. The aircraft was sold to Trans Arabian Air Transport (Sudan) as ST-ALK in Sep 1988, but was written off when it suffered a nose-gear collapse at Khartoum on 14 July 1990 ending its 25 year flying career.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens, using Kodacolor VR200 print film. Scanned from the original negative without restoration.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/