Swissair Airbus A310-222 HB-IPA 'Aargau' on finals for runway 27L at London Heathrow
Arriving on runway 27L at London Heathrow, this Swissair Airbus was only three years old at the time and still looked brand-new to me :)
I was never a fan of the Swissair Airbuses, as it meant the end for the DC-8s, and less chance of visiting DC-10s! Things only got a bit more interesting again when they started bringing in the MD-11s quite regularly in the early 1990s.
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 😎
HB-IPA 'Aargau' c/n 224 - A310-222 was delivered new to Swissair in Mar 1983, the first of 11 of the type in the fleet, largely replacing the ageing Douglas DC-8s. It flew with the airline for 12 years before being sold to ILFC and then to Federal Express as N446FE in 1995. It continued to operate as a freighter with FedEx for the next 14 years before finally being withdrawn and stored at Southern California Logistics, Victorville, CA in 2010. It was gradually broken up over the next couple of years.
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/
Swissair Airbus A310-222 HB-IPA 'Aargau' on finals for runway 27L at London Heathrow
Arriving on runway 27L at London Heathrow, this Swissair Airbus was only three years old at the time and still looked brand-new to me :)
I was never a fan of the Swissair Airbuses, as it meant the end for the DC-8s, and less chance of visiting DC-10s! Things only got a bit more interesting again when they started bringing in the MD-11s quite regularly in the early 1990s.
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 😎
HB-IPA 'Aargau' c/n 224 - A310-222 was delivered new to Swissair in Mar 1983, the first of 11 of the type in the fleet, largely replacing the ageing Douglas DC-8s. It flew with the airline for 12 years before being sold to ILFC and then to Federal Express as N446FE in 1995. It continued to operate as a freighter with FedEx for the next 14 years before finally being withdrawn and stored at Southern California Logistics, Victorville, CA in 2010. It was gradually broken up over the next couple of years.
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/