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ICM EMU 4214 is pictured being transferred from Binckhorst stabling yard to platform 5 of The Hague central station. Expert customers are already awaiting the additional EMU to be coupled to their afternoon intercity service to Groningen.

4214

Den Haag CS

24-06-1998

T199806-0078

This evening's sunset provided some neat cloud action, and this was one of the better sunsets that I have seen recently.

This is a single exposure, taken with Sony A7R, 29mm, 0.5-second exposure, f/8, ISO 50, B+W CPL, and 3-stop Lee GND filter to hold the sky back and get some detail in the foreground.

Photo taken by Manfred Kaffine and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

ca. July 1970

G-ANBL

Bristol 175 Britannia 102

12913

Britannia Airways

G-ANBL was last noted at Riem on 11 July 1970, which may well be the date of this shot. Six days before, on 5 July 1970, she had been seen at Riem with Southern Cross International - if the dates are correct, she would have acquired a blue cheatline instead of an orange one within six days. There are two sources for the Southern Cross sighting, airborne magazine and Aviation Letter, so I guess that date is correct at least.

In the late 1960s, there were sometimes up to five Britannia Airways Britannias at the airport on the same day:

1 January 1968: G-ANBE, G-ANBL

19 January 1969: G-ANBA, G-ANBF, G-ANBJ, G-ANBL

9 February 1969: G-ANBE, G-ANBF, G-ANBJ, G-ANBL, G-ANBO plus G-ANBD (BKS Air Transport)

3 April 1969: G-ANBF, G-ANBI, G-ANBL

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Richard Vandervord:

G-ANBL was received by BOAC on 2 March 1957 and was leased by Britannia Airways from June 1965 (following a lease to East African Airways in 1962). Sub-leased to Southern Cross just for a month in summer 1970 and returned to Britannia who then purchased her but b/u at Luton in July 1972 after 18 months' storage.

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-ANBL/671334

G-ANBL with BOAC ca. 1960:

www.flickr.com/photos/elaref/51190188695

G-ANBL leased to EAAC at LHR in 1962:

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1599916

G-ANBL stored at LHR in March 1964 (basic BOAC colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/5662925790

G-ANBL (plus G-ANBF) with Britannia Airways at LTN in January 1966:

www.flickr.com/photos/26268110@N02/22256316559

G-ANBL with Britannia Airways at CPH in July 1968 (later colours):

www.airhistory.net/photo/317670/G-ANBL

G-ANBL with Southern Cross International at LGW in June 1970:

www.airhistory.net/photo/20934/G-ANBL

G-ANBL ex-Britannia Airways stored at LTN ca. 1972 (next to G-ANBE):

www.airlines-airliners.de/fotoserien2/britannia/g_anbl.jpg

Scan from Kodak medium format (6 x 6 cm) slide, cropped to 3:2 aspect ratio.

www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/s/southstackcliffs/seasona...

About South Stack Cliffs

Enjoy a close-up view onto a wonderful cliff-side nesting colony, with binoculars and telescopes provided. You'll be able to watch guillemots, razorbills and puffins all raising their young, while live television pictures give you an even closer view of the nests! Rare choughs can also be seen on the reserve.

In spring and summer, the heathland becomes a riot of colour. Look closely and you may see a basking adder, while out to sea there may be porpoises and dolphins.

Opening times

The RSPB reserve is open year round; Ellins Tower, the RSPB visitor centre, is open from Easter to September.

Entrance charges

Free, but donations to help us continue our work here are welcome.

If you are new to birdwatching...

This reserve is good for birdwatching in the summer only.

Information for families

Some interactive materials in Ellins Tower Information Centre.

Information for dog owners

Some access for dogs. Please contact the reserve office for more information

Star species

Our star species are some of the most interesting birds you may see on your visit to the reserve.

Chough

The chough is the rarest member of the crow family in the UK. They can be found feeding in fields around South Stack, probing for invertebrates with their curved, red bill.

Guillemot

Guillemots look ungainly when they shuffle around on their nesting ledges on the cliffs, but underwater their streamlined shape comes into its own and they become agile and manoeuvrable.

Peregrine

Keep an eye out for a commotion among birds on the cliffs - a peregrine may be making a fly past. They are a regular sight overhead when a pair is nesting in the area.

Puffin

Enjoy the comical antics of puffins in spring and early summer from the viewing points on the cliffs. Watch the adults returning from fishing forays at sea with sandeels hanging from their colourful beaks.

Razorbill

Very similar to guillemots, razorbills spend most of their lives at sea in the Atlantic, only coming to land to breed between March and July.

Seasonal highlights

Each season brings a different experience at our nature reserves. In spring, the air is filled with birdsong as they compete to establish territories and attract a mate. In summer, look out for young birds making their first venture into the outside world. Autumn brings large movements of migrating birds - some heading south to a warmer climate, others seeking refuge in the UK from the cold Arctic winter. In winter, look out for large flocks of birds gathering to feed, or flying at dusk to form large roosts to keep warm.

Spring

Marvel at the wildflowers including kidney vetch, thrift and scurvey grass amid the cliff top grassland and heathland. Particularly eyecatching is the spring squill, which carpets areas of heathland that have recently been burnt. Look out for stonechats and linnets perched on top of bushes and listen out for the first skylarks. As spring takes hold, watch out for choughs and ravens collecting material to build their nests and don't miss the breeding seabirds crammed onto the narrow ledges on the cliffs in front of Ellins Tower.

Summer

Ellins tower provides excellent views of the seabird city with guillemots, razorbills, puffins, fulmars and gulls. Try to spot razorbill and guillemot chicks on the narrow cliff ledges, but don't leave it too late as these seabirds will be leave for the open ocean in July. Listen for the distinctive calls of choughs. They will be active gathering food for their ever growing young. Look out for the endemic spatulate fleawort amongst the cliff top grassland where you might be lucky and see an adder basking in the sun. Search out the rare silver-studded blue butterflies amid the shorter heathland.

Autumn

The heathland will be ablaze with colour as the mauves and purples of the heather flowers mingle with yellow gorse flowers. Look out for family groups of choughs. You will probably hear them first as the newly-fledged youngsters beg noisily for food from their parents. In the tidal races just offshore, look out for feeding gannets, passing shearwaters, porpoises and dolphins.

Winter

Look out for flocks of feeding choughs. These comprise of the newly-independent first year birds along with sub-adult birds from the last couple of years. A good place to search them out is the RSPB managed farmland (from the permissive path). This land is managed to provide foraging opportunities for chough throughout the year. Listen and look out for ravens as they begin to display, a sure sign that spring is round the corner.

Facilities

Facilities

•Information centre

•Car park : RSPB car park located at SH211818, complete with three marked disabled car parking bays and cycle racks.

•Binocular hire

•Group bookings accepted

•Guided walks available

•Remote location

•Good for walking

•Pushchair friendly

Viewing points

Spectacular views of the breeding seabird colonies from Ellins Tower visitor centre (open Easter to September) with binoculars and telescopes provided.

Nature trails

The South Stack reserve is very popular with visitors for many reasons. Visitor activity is concentrated around Ellins Tower (the RSPB information centre), where the paths are maintained to a higher standard than elsewhere on the reserve. The heathland areas and their network of paths are open to the public (on foot) at all times. These paths cross a mix of coastal and heathland terrain and some pass close to cliff edges. There are no specific RSPB trails, but the route of the Ynys Gybi circular walk and the Isle of Anglesey Coastal footpath are waymarked along with the routes of the public footpaths. The nature of the terrain makes many of the paths steep and rocky, making access difficult for anyone with impaired mobility. However, a well-surfaced, high-quality 2 m wide track with benches runs from the RSPB car park (complete with three disabled parking bays) into the heathland and onto a viewpoint in front of Ellins Tower. Access to Ellins Tower is via a steep flight of stairs. The permissive path through the farmland connects the two areas of heathland. This path is open to the public (on foot) at all times (except 10 December each year). Grazing animals are present, so please take care and keep dogs under close control. Access to the Isle of Anglesey Council's 'South Stack Island and the Lighthouse' visitor attraction is via approximately 400 steps of variable rise and tread width down the cliff (not part of the RSPB reserve).

Tearoom

Fantastic News! We are delighted to announce we have just taken over the ownership of South Stack Kitchen Café. The staff and builders at South Stack have been working furiously over the last 2 weeks since being handed the keys to carry out essential work needed to open the Café with a fresh, vibrant feel and we hope to reopen by the 28 May (sooner if we can) Once open the Café will be serving a range of hot and cold drinks, light bites and snacks for your enjoyment.

Refreshments available

•Hot drinks

•Cold drinks

•Hot meals

•Cold meals

•Snacks

Accessibility

The majority of visitor activity at the RSPB South Stack nature reserve is concentrated around Ellins Tower, the RSPB information centre, and occurs during the summer months. South Stack reserve comprises a mix of coastal and heathland terrain with steep sea cliffs which support breeding seabirds.

Nature trails

The nature of the terrain makes many of the paths steep and rocky making access difficult for anyone with impaired mobility. In view of the visitor pressure, the paths in the vicinity of Ellins Tower are maintained to a higher standard than elsewhere on the reserve.

The most accessible path for people of impaired mobility runs from the RSPB car park into the heathland and onto a viewpoint in front of Ellins Tower. The track is well-surfaced and high quality (2 m wide) with benches and leads from three marked disabled car-parking bays in the RSPB car park.

Visitor centre

From Easter to September, Ellins Tower is open daily from 10 am to 5.30 pm. Access to Ellins Tower, which is a Grade 2 Listed castellated folly near to the cliff edge, is via a steep flight of stairs. Views of the dramatic seascape and some of the breeding seabird colony can be gained from the viewpoint by those who are unable to gain access to Ellins Tower.

Our work here

Our South Stack reserve on Anglesey comprises heathland, farmland and offshore stacks and caves. The RSPB is managing these habitats for the benefit of their breeding seabirds and choughs, as well as a wide variety of other fauna and flora. We are also working to provide an excellent wildlife and landscape experience for visitors.

Chough haven

The reserve is especially important for its breeding choughs, with our nine pairs representing 2% of the UK population. We are maintaining the heathland and farmland to provide suitable nesting and feeding conditions for this rare bird.

Healthy heath

The reserve’s heathland is part of the largest area of maritime heath in North Wales. Besides choughs, this important habitat supports the endemic plant spatulate fleawort, and the uncommon silver-studded blue butterfly, plus adders, common lizards and a range of other flora and fauna. Controlled burning helps us to manage this habitat for the benefit of all its wildlife.

Seabird spectacular

The sea cliffs provide nest sites for around 4,000 seabirds, including puffins, guillemots, razorbills and fulmars. Other birds to use this habitat include peregrines and ravens. We are monitoring our seabird populations and working to minimise any disturbance to the colony.

Visitor value

The scenic beauty of the reserve, together with its seabird spectacle, operational lighthouse, and many sites of geological and archaeological interest, make it very popular with visitors. Around 35,000 people visit our information centres each summer.

We are maintaining and enhancing our facilities, including our visitor centre at Ellins Tower and our network of paths. We are also providing more information to help people to get the most from their visit, while promoting the aims of the RSPB. We run seven events per year and encourage an active volunteer programme.

Community care

South Stack is a major tourist attraction on Anglesey and plays a significant part in the local economy. We will continue to advertise the site to enhance the flow of tourist income to the island and, where possible, will support local communities and business in developing the reserve.

Photo from the Robert Samweber collection, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

München-Riem

Summer 1976

4X-ATX

Boeing 707-358C

20122/807

El Al Israel Airlines

Shortly before touch-down on runway 25. El Al B707s were frequent visitors to Riem in the late 1960s and during the 1970s.

Delivered new to El Al in May 1969; sold to Trans Air Cargo Service as 9Q-CVG in February 1995 and ended up with Congo Airlines; broken up at FIH in January 2001. (Source: rzjets.net) Note: The registration 9Q-CVG had previously been used for Katale Aero Transport Boeing 707-329C c/n 19162/480.

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/4X-ATX/493015

4X-ATX with El Al at JFK in March 1970:

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/70896_1180969567.jpg

4X-ATX with El Al (probably leased to Arkia) at ORY in April 1990 (no titles, big black radome):

www.flickr.com/photos/133794880@N04/52295353330

This airframe as 9Q-CVG with Air Transport Service at OST in August 1995:

www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/28385688917

9Q-CVG with Congo Airlines at OST in May 1997:

www.flickr.com/photos/keith_burton/27093110685

9Q-CVG with Zaire Airlines at OST in September 1997:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/5/9/1/4744195.jpg

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

** NOT MY PHOTO **

Photos provided by Air Canada via its Media Centre web site.

www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/home/about/media/new-livery.h...

Air Canada unveils its new livery today. The blue toothpaste colour scheme is gone, of which I'm glad. The historic "maple leaf rondelle" (maple leaf inside a stylised circle) is back. And the rondelle is now back on a very dark background, which I also like.

But I find the black "AIR CANADA" lettering horrendous, and the black "bandit" wrap around the cockpit windows strange, and evokes the image of raccoons. The below-cabin-window maple leaf rondelle is also a mystery. Cathay Pacific and a few airlines tried that, and discovered that it was ineffective and unpopular for passengers.

All a big waste of money if you ask me.

Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Kindly provided from the NK slide collection by Stephan Barth.

München-Riem

July 1971

YK-AFB "17th April"

Sud SE-210 Caravelle 10B3 Super B

190

Syrian Arab Airlines (Syrian Air)

YK-AFB in Syrian Air’s initial colour scheme.

Syrian Air Caravelles were a frequent sight at Munich-Riem in the 1970s. I have an overview of scheduled flights at MUC for winter 1972/1973 which shows Syrian Air flights on Tuesdays from LON to ATH-DAM (RB 406) and on Thursdays from DAM-NIC to PAR (RB 404) and from PAR to ATH-DAM (RB 410).

First flight 1966-06-23, delivered to Syrian Air 1966-06-30, wfu DAM 1996. (Source: rz.jets.net)

The aircraft was moved from DAM to Latakia, Syria, sometime after 2009 and placed on the beach there. Its remains with the wings cut off can still be seen on Google Maps in October 2023:

maps.app.goo.gl/mBUUKTyJjfWveYsR9

YK-AFB with Syrian Air at SXF in July 1974 (later colours, full Syrian Arab Airlines titles):

berlin-spotter.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/yk-afb.jpg

YK-AFB smokily approaching ATH in December 1992:

www.flickr.com/photos/22331715@N06/2825011469

YK-AFB with Syrian Air at SXF in May 1993 (final colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/chaika12/31858351577

YK-AFB derelict at DAM in 2006:

www.fap.fi/view_photo.php?id=423

YK-AFB at the edge of the Syrian Air maintenance ramp at DAM in July 2009:

www.flickr.com/photos/superspotter/3743511156

YK-AFD at Latakia in October 2020:

www.facebook.com/mazenfakhore.1/posts/syria-lattakia-sea-...

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

This was a view that provided great satisfaction for my soul - It shows the view looking across the East Basin of Lake Burley Griffin to the northeast shore. The starry sky, the navigation lights on the hills, and the shimmering reflections on the lake were all competing for top billing.

The hills are Mount Ainslie on the left and Mount Pleasant on the right. Prominent between them is the Australian American Monument, a column 73m high topped by a stylized eagle.

In the sky, the bright star on the lower left edge is Vega, whilst the bright star in the centre of a group of 3 towards the upper right portion of the image is Altair. The third bright star that makes up the northern hemisphere's Summer Triangle, i.e., Deneb, was just below the horizon. The portion of the heavans between Vega and Altair is known as the Great Rift region of the Milky Way. Unfortunately, the light pollution of the city and the low-light limitations of the Hasselblad camera that I was using prevented this feature from being imaged clearly.

I'm so very glad that I took this photograph to preserve the memory. The experience was such a great way to start this day ... Many components contributed to this sensation. Prominent amongst them was the act of taking a series of long exposure photographs with a Hasselblad V-series camera - it is such a magnificent instrument, largely mechanical, with a heritage harking back to the 1960's. The addition of a digital back is a notable sign of the present era. I would note that I don't review the photographs in detail "in the field". About all that I look at is whether an image has been acquired, that the highlights aren't overly blown-out, and that the horizon in resaonably level! However, the use of a digital back allows me to enjoy the results of my morning photo walk later on the same day and to learn from my efforts without needing to wait a week or so for a film to be finished and developed.

Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Photography notes ...

The photograph was taken using the following hardware configuration ...

- Hasselblad 500C/M body (1994).

- Hasselblad Acute Matte D 42262 Focusing Screen.

- Hasselblad CFV II Digital Back for Hasselblad V mount camera 16MP (2008).

- Hasselblad 45 Degree Viewfinder PME-45 42297 (2001).

- Carl Zeiss - Hasselblad Distagon 40mm CF T* FLE f4.0 V-series lens (1996).

- Hasselblad 093/40 Hood/Filter holder for 40mm CF lenses - Cat # 40693.

- Hasselblad 93mm 1x HZ-0 Filter - Cat # 51411.

(Year of manufacture indicated in braces where known.)

Acquired the photograph with an ISO of 50, exposure time of 30 seconds, and aperture of f/4.

Post-processing ...

Finder - Removed the CF card from the camera digital back and placed it in a Lexar 25-in-1 USB card reader. Then used Finder on my MacBook Air to download the raw image file (3FR extension) from the card.

Lightroom - Imported the 3FR image. Used the Map module to add the location details to the EXIF header. Applied various adjustments in the Develop module. Output the image as a JPEG image using the "Maximum" quality option (4080 x 4080 pixels). N.B., I would have liked to apply a geometric correction for the lens distortion, but I have observed that this would compromise the important de-banding process that was performed later in the processing sequence using the Topaz DeNoise plug-in (see below).

photoFXlab - Applied the "Topaz Simplify Dust 1" filter. Then applied the "Topaz DeNoise JPEG Light" filter with various custom settings, notably additional color (chromatic) noise reduction and de-banding. Saved the image as a JPEG image using the "Maximum" quality option.

PhotoSync - Copied the JPEG file to my iPad Mini for the final processing steps and posting to social media.

Handy Photo - Used the Retouch tool to attenuate some of the artifacts due to dust and oil on the camera image sensor.

Snapseed - Straightened the image. Applied various lighting and color adjustments. Output an image with 4031 x 4031 pixels.

FrontView - Applied a trapezoidal crop to alter the apparent perspective and to reduce the tendency for elements to "lean" in towards the centre of the image. Output an image with 3919 x 4031 pixels.

Big Photo - Cropped the image to square format and output an image with 3919 x 3919 pixels.

ExifEditor - Copied the EXIF data from the Lightroom output image to the current working image.

Photo taken by Robert Samweber, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

München-Riem

June 1990

N820TC

McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63

45999/377

Trans Continental Airlines

This airframe had previously visited Riem as PH-DEC with KLM on 6 June 1977. N820TC was noted at Riem on 7 April 1990 operating a flight for LTU. The date on this slide says June 1990, so there were probably more flights in spring 1990.

Information from flickr - thanks to Ken Fielding:

Delivered new to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as PH-DEC in Jul-68, it operated for 16 years until it was sold to a leasing company in Mar-84 and leased to Icelandair as TF-FLU. It returned to the lessor in Mar-89 as N820TC and was leased to Trans Continental Airlines two months later. It was returned to the lessor in Dec-90 and stored as N863E. It was converted to freight configuration in Apr-91 and leased to Southern World Airlines in Jul-91. They didn’t have it long and in Oct-91 it returned to the lessor and was leased to American International Airways (Kalitta!). It was re-registered N787AL in Aug-92 but returned to the lessor 2 months later and was immediately leased to ATI Air Transport International. It was re-registered N788AL in May-94 and continued in service with ATI. On return to the lessor in Feb-97 the aircraft was sold to Airborne Express and re-registered N828AX in Nov-97. Airborne Express were renamed ABX Air in Aug-03 and the aircraft continued in service until it was stored at Cincinnati (CVG), OH, USA in Dec-07 . It was sold in Jul-09 to Meridian Airways, Ghana, as 9G-AXC. Meridian Airways ceased operations in 2010.

Broken up at ACC in January 2015 (rzjets.net).

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/9G-AXC/649464

This airframe as PH-DEC with KLM at AMS in March 1975:

www.flickr.com/photos/157839500@N04/42316343981

This airframe as TF-FLU with Icelandair at LUX in August 1987:

www.flickr.com/photos/98963354@N00/18235451415

Another shot of N820TC with Trans Continental at Riem in April 1990:

www.planepictures.net/a/4/60/1027580618.jpg

This airframe as N863E with Southern World at ANC in August 1991:

www.flickr.com/photos/redripper24/8240475278

N863E with American International at MIA in May 1992:

www.flickr.com/photos/chrischenn76/5709407335

This airframe as N787AL with ATI at FRA in October 1994:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/5/2/0414253.jpg

This airframe as N788AL with ATI at STN in April 1996:

www.flickr.com/photos/jaydeekay/17492376596

This airframe as N828AX with Airborne Express at SFO in January 2007:

www.flickr.com/photos/130658785@N08/50129315366

This airframe as 9X-AXC with Meridian Airways at MSE in April 2009:

www.flickr.com/photos/cooke1/18346899481

9X-AXC still stored at ACC in October 2014:

www.flickr.com/photos/66737297@N06/15384422409

The remains of 9X-AXC at ACC in January 2015:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/2/3/3/2635332.jpg

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Scan edited by Michael Röser and kindly provided by Stephan Barth.

München-Riem

June 1972

D-ABOC (1)

Boeing 707-430

17719 / 106

Condor

Note: The aircraft preserved at TXL as D-ABOC in basic old Lufthansa colours is Boeing 707-458 cn 18071 / 216 (ex 4X-ATB El-Al). The registration D-ABOC was later used for Condor Boeing 757-330 cn 29015 / 818.

Delivered new to Lufthansa as D-ABOC in March 1960. Leased to Condor at various times during the 1970s. Sold to Janco Panama as N64739 in June 1977. To Interconair as EI-BFN in July 1978. To STAC Transports Aériens Centrafricain as 5A-CVA in February 1979. Noted derelict at TIP in December 1982 and scrapped in 1988. (Sources: rzjets.net, flickr/Kerry Taylor, oldjets.net).

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/D-ABOC/489797

Information from oldjets:

In the summer of 1976 Lufthansa retired it's Rolls-Royce powered Boeing 707-430s. Of the 5 707-430s that the airline owned, 4 of them went on to work either directly or indirectly with infamous Biafra war mercenary pilot, Henry 'Hank' Warton.

...

And so what of N64739 which had returned State-side in November 1977 after it’s stint as a gun runner? It was registered in Ireland in August 1978 as EI-BFN with Interconair, Dublin who already owned a Britannia and intended to use the 707 on long-haul livestock and general charters (N9985F had their titles applied but never entered service), however there were certification difficulties and the aircraft returned to the US register as N90498 with Landy in January 1979 at Manston. In April 1979 it left Manson for Tripoli as 5A-CVA with STAC (Soc. Transports Aériens Centrafricains), a company formed by Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa, to carry ivory for resale abroad. Bokassa was overthrown in a coup in September 1979 and the aircraft was nominally transferred to United African Airlines, the successors to STAC. The aircraft officially reverted to N90498 with Anderson Aviation in January 1980, but never departed Tripoli, remaining there till 1988 when it was broken up.

Check out the full article here: www.oldjets.net/good-guys-went-bad.html

D-ABOC with Lufthansa at JFK in February 1966 (earlier colours):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/6/1/0193161.jpg

D-ABOC with Lufthansa at NCL in April 1967 (earlier colours, revised titles):

pbs.twimg.com/media/EI4Scq1XYAEG74y?format=jpg&name=m...

D-ABOC with Lufthansa at AMS in July 1969 (later colours):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/6/8/4283861.jpg

This airframe as N64739 operated by Air Trans at SZG in September 1977 (yellow tail):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/1/8/2688819.jpg

N64739 stored at SNN in February 1978 and June 1978 (blue tail):

www.flickr.com/photos/eidwfotos/31889761711

www.flickr.com/photos/137541733@N06/51729457425

This airframe as EI-BFN with Interconair stored at MSE in December 1978 (blue tail):

www.flickr.com/photos/antonov22/49962363538

A Boeing 707 reported as ex-Condor D-ABOC derelict on the TIP dump in September 2004 (yellow tail):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/9/3/0642391.jpg

www.airpics.com/pics/public/63863/large.jpg

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Naples Fire Station No. 1 is a 22,600-SF, two-story station housing city-provided fire response, as well as county-provided EMS rescue response. It includes fire department administration, Station No. 1, EMS, emergency operations center managed by the fire department, three-apparatus bays and associated apparatus support spaces, battalion chief office, bunk room, and locker room. General facility functions such as kitchen, dining, report writing, physical agility, dormitories, restrooms and showers, and equipment / utility support spaces are also included.

The facility is designed to promote the family unit by creating an open shared space in the kitchen, dining, and dayroom. The Naples Fire Station No. 1 and Administration Building continues to support its surrounding community in a variety of ways with the building’s efficient design, implementation of technology, and alerting systems, the facility was able to reduce fire and medical response times within the city limits. An (Insurance Services Organization) ISO fire rating is a score provided to fire departments and insurance companies by the Insurance Services Office. The score reflects how prepared a community and area is for fires. Due to its completion, Naples Fire-Rescue recently achieved the ISO rating of Class 1. This improvement provides assurances to the Naples residents and businesses that the Fire-Rescue Department meets the highest national benchmarks and can even potentially reduce hazard insurance for buildings located in Naples, Florida.

The building is organized with the community in mind, first and foremost. Even though the majority of the building is built six feet above the street level for flooding protection purposes, the public lobby is designed and engineered at ground level in order to provide ease of access, as well as promote a sense of trust and transparency to the public.

The building utilizes a community space adjacent to the main lobby enabling Naples Fire Rescue Community Outreach department to offer programs such as: free CPR and AED training, home safety inspection program, smoke detector program, child safety, and Youth Academy. Unlike most fire station apparatus bays, the Naples Fire Station 1 is able to serve as an educational space and an additional venue for community events. It was designed to directly capture exhaust fumes from fire apparatus vehicles and utilizes sensors for CO2 & NO2 gasses to exhaust air as required. With the garage doors open and the oversized high volume low sped fans on, the apparatus bay was able to be utilized as a vaccination site during the Covid-19 pandemic when vaccines first became available, and people were lining up in the hot Florida sun at other facilities."

Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:

floridapeopleschoice.org/building.cfm/0354/#:~:text=Naple....

www.countyoffice.org/city-of-naples-fire-department-stati...

www.naplesgov.com/firerescue/page/fire-stationsapparatus

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Photo taken by Reimar Wendt and uploaded with his kind permission (slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß).

München-Riem

June 1981

N510PA "Clipper George T. Baker"

Lockheed L-1011-385-3 TriStar 500

193Y-1194

Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)

Typical smoky TriStar start-up. N510PA was brand new at the time of this photo, it had only been delivered about two months before. Pan Am started a non-stop service from MUC to JFK in 1981 using TriStar 500s.

Information from flickr - thanks to Ken Fielding:

First flown with the Lockheed test registration N4003G, this aircraft was delivered to Pan American World Airways as N510PA in Apr-81. In Apr-85 Pan Am was in a bad state financially and sold off their Pacific Division to United Airlines. The transfer of their B747SP's and Tristars was also a part of the deal. This aircraft was transferred to United Airlines in Feb-86. As United already operated DC-10's, the Tristars were stored. This one was sold to Delta Air Lines in Jun-88 and was re-registered N760DH the following month. It continued to operate until it was withdrawn from service and permanently retired at Victorville, CA, USA in Sep-99.

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N510PA/754628

N510PA with United Airlines at SFO ca. 1986(hybrid Pan Am/United colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/33649455644

N510PA with United Airlines at SFO ca. late 1980s:

www.flickr.com/photos/edge-to-edge-photography/1284728513...

This airframe as N760DH with Delta Airlines at LGW in February 1993:

www.flickr.com/photos/85374400@N03/50921919717

N760DH still stored at Victorville (VCV / KVCV) in April 2013:

www.flickr.com/photos/aeroprints/9075886876

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Photo taken by Klaus Held, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page:

München-Riem

October 1966

OK-LCA

Avia Av-14P

703109

Československé Aerolinie (ČSA) - Czechoslovak Airlines

Klaus Held’s Riem chronicle lists two visits of OK-LCA to Riem, on 22 October and 28 October 1966. Here, OK-LCA is parked in front of the terminal building as seen from the viewing terrace. Sister ship OK-MCA was noted on 1 November 1966.

OK-LCA appeared at Le Bourget in May 1957 before its official delivery to ČSA in June 1957. The aircraft stayed with the airline until it was sold to the Soviet Union in June 1977 as CCCP-61793. It was used until March 1987. (Source: scramble.nl)

Registration details for this airframe:

www.scramble.nl/database/soviet/details/81_56680

OK-LCA at LBG in May 1957 prior to delivery to ČSA (no titles):

www.airhistory.net/photo/10327/OK-LCA

OK-LCA with ČSA at LHR late 1950s (full titles):

www.airhistory.net/photo/10327/OK-LCA

OK-LCA with ČSA at SZG in June 1975:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/7/0/5230079.jpg

This airframe as CCCP-61793 with Aeroflot at Molodezhnaya station winter 1981/1982:

www.polarpost.ru/forum/download/file.php?id=59251&sid...

Scan from black-and-white print.

Case Study 113 : Warning, these are the raw, bare unusual occurrences as originally chronicled. Some names, times, places and some facts have been, of course, altered.

Name: Angelica D circa 192__

Subject: an unscrupulous light-fingered body thief

Event: Posh Wedding Reception

Place: Upstate New York

Time: Warm early Autumn Saturday

Angie Being Receptive

Story line:

Angie had heard about the affair, a wedding, from a list of prospective functions provided by a discreetly paid contact. It was being given for the only daughter of a wealthy politician (as if there were any non-wealthy ones!) Angie had happily invited herself to the affair, carefully dressing up in her best for the special occasion!

**

Wedding receptions were by far Angie’s favorite hunting grounds. During the season there could be anywhere from upwards of 20 high end affaires every weekend in the bigger cities, and always 2 or 3 in even the smallest of towns.

Wedding s were usually easy pickings: free food, drink and entertainment, and seldom worn jewelry made for a ready-made mix for Angie to ply her trade. For Angelica D. was a uniquely skilled pickpocket, specializing in the removal for profit of the expensive jewelry worn by the (usually be -gowned) women and young ladies’ who hauntingly dwelt in societies upper crust!

So Weddings, by their nature, were the desirable choice for Angie. One only had to avoid the Bride, her Bridesmaids, and their court, which were usually the major focus of any security present. However, there were plenty of opportunities to be had by employing her special bag of tricks on the outlaying fringe.

Angie had arrived early at the mammoth facility, to scout out the establishment and to scope out who was wearing what. Used to these affairs either being feast or famine, she could quickly tell that in this one there was cooking up a devouring banquet.

**

After Angie had entered the mammoth reception room it did not take her long to spy her first plump prospect, nicely loaded with possibilities. It was a lady, bearing a haughty look, who had been making a b-line through the crowd as way was parted for her. She was wearing a luxuriously long rusty coloured sable fur coat that hid most of her long crimson -red satin gown. What Jewels were visible, ears, fingers and wrist, were all flashing with pricy fire. In tow she held the hand of a young girl, obviously her daughter, wearing actual makeup, which, along with her fetching gown and brite jewelry, made her appear far older than she was. A handsome man , looking like the actor William Powell in a tux, followed behind the pair, husband and father, Angie presumed. She shadowed the little family as they swished their way to a corner table, conveniently located by a rear exit, for a better look over. Her fingers had started with an all too familiar tingle as she took it all in.

**

The husband helped his wife out of the sable, laying it carefully along a bench against the wall. Angie was not disappointed. A silver necklace of large matched diamonds gracefully encircled her throat. A dazzling blood ruby and diamond brooch held up the center of her gown, positioned just below the bust line. Brooches, like this one, were worth a lot once fenced, but its placement required a little more dexterity and skill than she was willing to risk. In actuality, Angie had only attempted twice before to take a brooch pinned to a gown in this fashion. She had only been successful one of those times, only to find out it was a pretty piece of paste.( Years later, as Angie’s talents became more polished, relieving ladies of their dangling brooches, like this blood ruby, became her specialty.. the Eds.) Angie’s eyes moved on. The rest of the snooty lady’s jewels matched her necklace. Long earrings, free clipped, dangling brightly from her earlobe s. A pair of wide ruby bracelets clasped tightly home around elegant red elbow length satin gloves, sparkled devastatingly, matching her brooch. Her long fingers were home to a pair of ruby and diamond rings and a third ring set with a gold band and a vulgarly large solitaire diamond.

**

Angie’s attention turned to the daughter, whom had been helped by her Father , squirming, from the chocolate coloured satin cape that she had been wearing. The youngster, all of about 10, was wearing a cream coloured long puffy sleeved dress with a brown satin sash encircling her waist that matched her Cape. The young lady possessed impossible large bright eyes. The only thing that held more shine than those doe like eyes had been the antique rhinestone diamond necklace that fell dripping ever so invitingly down the front of the precious little imp’s rich glossy gown. The rest of her matching rhinestones (obviously belonging to the child’s mother) consisted of an engaging display of a bracelet, pair of dangling, screwed on clasp earrings, and matching rings encircling a chubby finger one on each hand. It all gleamed brightly, invitingly from her svelte girlish figure. A large round pin held her sash up in place; it sparkled with what looked like a ring consisting of one caret diamonds, as unlikely as it was they could be real.

**

The two females of the family presented a pretty package indeed. Not one to pass up an invite that alluring, Angie walked by , with the pretext of heading to a back exit behind the table the little family had staked, just so she could get a closer peek.

**

Angie’s practiced eye took in a wealth of information during the few seconds it took her to walk up and pass the group, so involved with themselves they never even looked her way. Her attention focused upon the young mother first scoping head to toe.

**

Angie scrutinized the brooch; it was definitely worth the effort. In her mind’s eye, Angie envisioned the mother as a stumbling drunk “bumping into” Angie. Fingers whisking along the slippery lustrously softness of the gown, as the lady was steadied. Angie would accept the women apologies and the pair would part their ways, Angie from the young mother, and the magnificent brooch from the rich satiny red gown. But then the mother raised her head, looking up past Angie, towards a commotion being made behind her. Typical Angie thought, she doesn’t recognize me, so I don’t exist, like some sort of servant. But it was as she caught the young mother in full profile that she realized this lady looked strikingly similar to another woman who had been wearing an expensive dress of teal charmeuse that Angie had had been having a long conversation with, while relieving the woman’s finger of a costly diamond sapphire ring. It had happened only just last weekend at a formal function, and Angie figured she may have not recognized her in passing, but may if Angie were to use one of her approaches again with the intent of taking some of her jewelry, he memory may be jarred, and she may remember her missing ring. This was why Angie only allowed herself to ply her trade for no more than a month in any given place per year. This was from a lesson she had learned early on in her career. And so, for that reason alone, Angie decided to, at least temporarily, abandon any designs she had on the young mother’s brooch, allowing her devious intentions to evaporate from her mind like smoke on the wind. There were plenty more fish in the sea she told herself.

**

Angie still allowed herself a quick appraisal of the squirming 10 year old. She admired the glossy dress of slippery satin that her mother had conveniently dressed her daughter up in, as it fell spilling down to her black open toed shoes. Angie’s fingers started to tingle; this was a perfect tickling gown. Angie liked to think of any long dress or gown that swept down to a females heels as a” tickling gown”. All it took was a strategically placed foot timed with a well place nudge to send the chosen victim tumbling. During the ensuing diversion, Angie would use her long subtle fingers to swiftly probe along the gowned figure, tickling she like to call it due to the tingling sensation of the usually rich material of the victim’s attire. In this fashion, a pre-targeted piece of valuable jewelry could then be easily acquired, no matter what its placement had been on the unfortunate female. If only the chatty youngster had something on better than rhinestones. It was a crying shame to have a child that young dolled up like an adult, but not wearing adult jewels.

**

Angie continued to walk past, unseen, and went out the door. She found herself in a large serenity garden of roses and shrubs, surrounded by a 10 foot high well-trimmed hedge. The sort of garden one usually found in those days around upscale Churches. The only exit was a gate leading onto the parking lot on the side of the church. Here was positioned a solitary, lonely guard in a neat little guard hut. In the opposite, far corner was a statue of Cupid, arrow drawn, standing above a display of blooming moss roses at the end opposite to the gate. There was always potential in places like these.

**

Angie had started to walk over to the Cupid statue when she heard the exit door open. Turning, she saw the young girl, whose mother’s brooch Angie had been scoping out, looking out the door. She snuck through, running out alone, silky tickling gown swishing out behind her. Her heart leapt to her throat as she watched the girls rhinestones sparkle radiantly. She actually turned to head towards the path the unsuspecting child was running up, flexing her fingers as she contemplating a little warm up practice. Angie watched as the dolled up imps necklace flashed with pinpricks of coloure as it bounced to and fro as she ran happily up the path .Angie turned her back to the girl, waiting to hear the telltale click of her heels come up just behind her. She would then move, bumping into the girl as she passed, tripping her to the ground. After which Angie would help her up, removing the girl’s fancy necklace in the process. Come to Mama Angie whispered under her breath, waiting to make her move as the skipping heels grew ever louder.

**

But then Angie froze, hearing the clicking of the exit door again opening behind her. She checked her stride letting the daughter slither past without a glance. She headed again towards the statue, watching her prize move on ahead. Then she heard the father in the background calling out to his little princess. The youngster turned, and ran back, beaming at Angie as she passed. Angie smiled back, her eyes again traveling to the girls neckline, and the sparkling jewelry the outlined her throat. It had been a silly thought she chided herself, as the girl passed from view. If only the necklace had been real, and the father about ten minutes later in discovering his daughter absence. It would have been an unbelievably easy pluck and she could be out the gate before anyone was the wiser. And the best part was that they would probably believe the scampering girl had just lost it in the garden. And, while the parents were looking about, Angie would have been free to renter to ply her trade again. As it was, it was silly of Angie, risking her opportunity on a child’s bauble worth a mere pittance compared to some of the other offerings so readily being flaunted this evening by her adult counterparts.

**

Angie continued her casual stroll through the Garden, happily playing over in her mind some of the jewels that she would like to see adorning the female guests inside, and the scenarios she may be using to acquire them

**

Finding herself approaching the guard hut, she allowed herself a glance back. Jealously she watched the father, who had caught and was carrying his slippery attired daughter, heading back inside. How Angie wished she had been the one carrying the squirming little imp, it would have been like a smorgasbord, with jewels instead of food. Pity her mother had not put the good stuff on the daughter, she sighed to herself. Tonight she would have to work for her butter. She walked past the bored guard, nodding at him, receiving a rather lecherous look in return. A smile was forming across her cunning face, for now it was time to get down to the real business at hand.

**

The affair turned out to be quite a showcase for the very rich. Who were indiscreetly flaunting their riches, trying to outdo one another, probably for the benefit of the politicians’ attention? Certainly not for the attention of the designer satin gowned and flashy diamonded daughter, whom most of the guests hardly knew, or had ever met.

**

Angie always felt like a little kid in a candy shoppe at these lavish affairs.

She spent the first part of the reception mingling and thoroughly enjoying the show her the reception’s guests were u wittingly putting on. Angie, wearing no jewels herself, was something of an anomaly compared to her fellow guests.

**

There were over a thousand luxuriously coloured, squawking female birds and their young chicks pompously displaying valuable finery, oblivious of the cat amongst them waiting to pounce. Angie patently mingled, watching as the adult guests had their fill of food and drink.

Once their guard began to relax, Angie raised hers’, her probingly skillful fingers now more than prepared to begin and ply her trade. For the more they imbibed, the less guarded they were, both about themselves and their female offspring. Angie would start with the adults, 2 or 3 of the right pieces of jewelry, once acquired, and would mean she could call it a night and have enough to support her for a solid month. If she came up empty in that department, her back up would then center on the female off-spring, daughters and nieces.

Most of said offspring would be by then scattered about, aware that their parents were no longer paying them any heed, exploring and playing, sporting their fancy satin gowns, silken dresses, and their dainty jewelry, ripe for the picking. Giving pickpockets like Angie endless opportunity to ply their trade on them, once they had finished working through the adults. Or if the thieves were beginners, plenty of easy practice while “learning the ropes!”

**

Now, when Angie herself was just starting out as a young pickpocket, she stumbled across a treatise written by a man using the pseudonym “Gaston Monescu”. Written around 1826, entitled the Cutpurse: skilles, artes and Secretes of the Dip, it covered the various tactics and moves used by master pickpockets.

Angie had studied it religiously, especially a ploy called the “Necklace Flimp.” This tactic was primarily used for body thieves working alone. Angie had been surprised to learn that a pickpocket could raise his/her skill level above just acquiring wallets. Having the ability to lift a woman’s necklace amazed her, not to mention the profit that could be realized. With practice, Angie had found that not only was it a good technique for acquiring necklaces, but it worked for other pieces of worn jewelry as well.

It was relatively simple process, but took a long time to master.

First part was to employ psychology and watch the potential victim for the unique movements and quirks in their personality and actions that could provide an opportunity for her skills. Then observe the selected piece the victim wore, for value, type of clasp, make, and accessibility. The second part was to employ a bump, slip, or grasp, and in one motion, flick open the studied clasp and send the piece away from the body by either pulling and palming, or dropping it to the floor or ground for retrieval later. If she was noticed, it was “sorry, miss, very clumsy of me” “here let me get if for you, no harm done?” Then walk away and let the waters settle before trying yet again (sometimes even on the same person!)

Angie had practiced the jewelry flimp until she had the technique totally mastered. Starting out first on specially dressed up mannequins in her apartment, than trying it on small pieces of cheap baubles worn by real women in crowded streets and stores. Then on younger, less guarded, better jewelry wearing young girls attending proms and social dances. Young looking for her age at the time, Angie had fit right in amongst them. Then, finally, she graduated to lifting the better jewels of the older, wealthy women attending society’s finer parties and receptions. And it was this path that led her here today, and would also lead several unlucky females to report missing jewelry to their respective insurance companies.

**

See Album “Angie having a Ball” for additional background on our master thief with the light fingers.

**

Angie now eagerly employed those useful talents learned from monsieur Monescu’s little pamphlet at the wedding reception. She mingled freely, carrying around a drink that never touched her lips. She watched and learned, her trained eyes missing very little. Soon, like that hypothetical kid in a candy shoppe, Angie’s head was spinning from so much to choose from that she really could not make any easy choice. So, she waited and watched patiently, knowing opportunity would knock.

**

Then, like it usually happened with Angie, the first genuine opportunity unexpectedly presented herself. Angie literally was run into a rather awkward, spindly lady in thick glasses clad in a fetchingly expensive costume consisting of a thick silver satin blouse with hanging ruffles down its front, combined with a long rustling tiered skirt that swept down to the top of her open toed silver high heels. Her diamond jewelry shone with exuberant flames as they caught the light from the many chandeliers that hung from the vaulted ceiling. The lady expressed frantically her apologies, placing a hand with well ringed fingers on Angie’s shoulder, where they sparkled merrily. No worries Angie said smiling, her eyes taking it all in without appearing to move. She let the frazzled lady leave, allowing her a head start, it was only sporting to do so.

**

Angie shadowed her quarry for a while, seemingly rewarded for her efforts when the lady managed to spill a bit of her drink down on her skirt. In a show of flashing silvery satin and diamonds ,she retreated and disappeared into a nearby powder room, with Angie following eagerly, opportunity knocking.

**

As Angie grabbed onto the closing powder room door, a mid- twenty something girl in a deep green velvet gown came out. Her only jewelry was a wide diamond bracelet wrapped around a wrist of the matching long green gloves she wore. Angie caught it out of the corner of her eye, realizing that it was as expensive as it was bright. But it was her friend, a willowy short haired pretty young thing in a glamorous Chocolate Satin gown that made Angie’s jaw drop. Her jewels, like her friends, were also sparse, but enormously pricy. The long white satin gloves that graced her hands and arms also held matching bracelets, thin, but each one worth the effort. But her real eye catcher was the row of authentic, one caret white diamonds that were rippling exquisite fire along her throat. Angie held the door for them, nodding to as they passed. Noses in the air, they did not appear to notice Angie. Then, with the ladies backs to her, Angie abandoned Miss silver satin and turned to follow. Angie got in behind the two with the intention of getting a closure examination of the clasp of the fiery diamond necklace Miss Chocolate satin was wearing.

**

However, Angie never got her closer look. For at that moment the tossing of the bride’s boutique was announced and Angie was overwhelmed by a mad dash of single ladies heading for the bride. On a lark she allowed herself to be swept along, losing sight of Miss Chocolate satin, but found herself right smack behind Miss Green velvet and her cheerfully sparkling diamond bracelet, a beautifully expensive piece that would have cost someone a king’s ransom. Angie’s fingers began their all too familiar tingling, eager for a chance to acquire jewelry that valuable, but not for any king, just for herself!

**

Though the night was still relatively early, and Angie still had visions of those exquisite rippling diamonds of the pretty Miss in chocolate satin on her mind, she simply could not pass up this opportunity. Angie wedged herself close behind her chosen victim as the multitude of hopeful young women pressed forward to try their luck. As the Bride teased her guests before getting ready to toss her bouquet of white and red roses, Angie expertly scrutinized the bracelet as it dangled from the green velvet glove. When the bride finally turned her back and raised her arms every one of the richly clad single women’s eyes was focused on the bride’s bouquet, Angie’s eyes were fixated on the bracelet. With the music playing loud, the crowd giggling and laughing, and all eyes focused on the gorgeously outfitted young long haired bride, Angie again felt opportunity knocking. Her pulse beating in rhythm with the music, she made ready to seize the chance when it presented itself. The roses flew through the air and all the women raised their hands high, looking all for the world like being involved in a stick-up. Angie timed it perfectly, snapping the clasp, and snatching the bracelet easily away from the gloved wrist of its owner as she raised her arms high to grab at the boutique. In her excitement, shared by everyone, Miss Green velvet ( who did not catch the bouget of roses) never felt a thing. Angie had smirked as she left the giggling group, stowing securely the purloined diamonds, as she imagined what it would have been like to watch that group robbed in a mass stick-up. The money that some enterprising soul could have made from that haul would have been astronomical.

**

She went to the open bar, lighting her first cigarette; she ordered her first real drink of the night. She could feel the coolness of the weighty bracelet in its hiding spot, and Angie, pleased with herself, calmly sipped her drink as she relished in the moment. The toss of the Brides Boutique was, in Angie’s experienced opinion, one of the three common events occurring during a wedding reception that were fertilely prime times for pickpocketing. (Editor’s note.. Miss D. mysteriously never divulged what she considered the other two prime events to be….)

**

She looked about without a worry in the world, coolly watching the antics of some of the younger women on the dance floor. She spied the young miss in the green velvet gown over in a corner talking in an animated fashion with several other women. Green velvet gown’s now bare velvet glove, apparently not noticed by anyone but Angie. One of her group was displaying some bright emeralds peeking through the long silver fur she was wearing, obviously she was leaving, and she was talking excitedly about something to the group formed around her! Nowhere in sight was Miss chocolate satin, too bad, Angie would have loved another peek before leaving.

Angie watched around the room causally, as the cold bracelet pressed expensively against her figure from its hiding spot. She eventually lost track of green velvet and her friends while finishing her drink. Setting down the empty glass, she decided it was time to call it a night. The bracelet now in her possession was easily worth as much as the 2 or 3 separate pieces she usually acquired at functions like these, added together! And, she needed her rest, Angie had a couple of plans the next day, one revolving around the female guests who would be attending an upscale afternoon prom fashion show a, the other, an evening opera performance (invited guests only, and her contact had managed to supply a ticket, at a hefty price!) No rest for the wicked, Angie told herself.

**

On her way out of the main lobby, she found herself leaving behind the very lady in green velvet whose bracelet was now in Angie’s possession. She was with the same gaggle of her similarly dressed friends, including the one exhibiting the emeralds. However, miss chocolate satin was still not visible. They were laughing and joking as they collected their assorted pretty wraps, obviously heading for a nightclub. If she had not already relieved one of them of a bauble, Angie might have invited herself along, if only to have a go at some emeralds. Angie hesitated about leaving withy them, then shrugged, followed the group out the door past the pair of bored rent a cops.

**

She remembered thinking, as she followed the elegant young princesses ,their fluid gowns peeking from under their various furs and wraps, how shallow the very rich could be. She wondered if Miss Green velvets friends had even noticed that she had had diamonds around the wrist of her glove, let alone that they were now missing. She wondered how long it would be before the bracelets loss was discovered. She figured it would be several hours, long enough for its owner not to be sure what place they had been lost. As young Miss Green velvet fancy gown and her friends turned right outside the exit, Angie turned left, heading towards the guard hut at the entrance to the garden.

She decided not to follow them but rather circle around the outside of the garden to give her victim time to leave.

**

That simple decision to make a left turn proved to be a major turning point in Angie’s fortunes that evening.

**

As Angie passed the hut guarding the entrance to the serenity garden, she noticed it was deserted.

It was as she was looking it over, that she heard the sounds of clicking heels moving fast, followed by the sounds of a young girl giggling. On the alert she stole to the backside of the hut, soon spying a splash of something blue and silky between the gaps of a couple of large bushes. Her senses on their highest peak, she began to move cautiously in, hoping the female making the noise would be in need of aid and comfort perhaps.

**

She soon spotted a young lady of about 14 bending over, hands on her knees as she panted heavily. Her back was to Angie, and what pretty back it was. She was nicely attired in a long gown of shiny material dyed deep blue like an afternoon, cloudless summer sky. The gown cascaded down along her petite figure, spilling out on the ground around her feet. Her hair was pulled back, easily displaying a pair of small diamond and sapphire earrings, not rhinestones for this one, but the real McCoy. Around one finger was a gold ring with sapphires, and from her left wrist dangled a thin silver bracelet with a row of diamond chips, both pretty, both valuably real. But it was her last piece of visible jewelry that stole the show. It hung, swinging to and from her neck on a thick braided chain of solid silver. On its end, like a hypnotists prism, was a silver pendent in the shape of a flower, with 1 inch long, pear shaped real diamonds as petals and a fully 2 inch in circumference center stone of deep sea blue. Angie watched it, her eyes following it for a full minute, its expensive fire sealing its own fate as Angie began flexing her fingers. Angie took her eyes off of it and looked around to see why the princess had been running. But all was still as the girl continued to peek through the branches towards the back door leading into the hall. Angie silently approached, and walking up to the pretty miss she bent down and in a friendly tone, asked who she was running from.

**

I played a joke on my sister, and now I’m hiding from her, piped the girl breathlessly, as Angie placed a hand upon the girls shoulder in a conspiratorial fashion, said shoulder made silky soft by the gowns half sleeve.

**

I know a better place where you can hide from her, Angie whispered in the girl’s ear, the dangling earring ever so close to her lips. The girl looked up, smiling, and Angie pointed towards the guard hut, and as the girl looked, Angie’s fingers glided up along the silky shoulder and lifted the thick silver chain up from the back of the gowns’ scooped collar. Come Angie said, and as the girl rose Angie’s fingers nimbly flicked open the chains’ lobster clasp, holding onto the clasp as the other end of the chain slipped down, allowing the pendent to slide free and fall onto the grass at the girls feet, where it lay shimmering. Angie moved her hand to the girls shoulder, squeezing it, while slipping off the braided silver chain with her other hand, whisking it back and away from the guileless young girl. Angie led her princess away from the spot and walked with her to the guard’s hut, still empty, where she had her hide neath the counter.

**

Angie turned and went back to claim the pendent, there still was no sign of any sister. She secured the pendent, joining it with the chain and bracelet, and headed deeper into garden. Her plan was to watch the hut and see which way the girl went after getting bored waiting. But as she skirted the perimeter her plans were changed when, upon rounding a corner of the path at the far end, she saw yet another back belonging to a solitary lady in her late thirties, clad in a long slinky yellow coloured gown of expensively shiny taffeta, bending over to smell the yellow roses on a bush. Instinctively Angie knew two things about her. One was that whatever jewels this lady would be wearing, they would be expensive, and the other was that with an expensive gown like that; the lady would undoubtedly be wearing her jewels. Angie suddenly became aware that her fingers were tingling, as an all too familiar whelming feeling again delightfully washed over her.

**

Angie found herself automatically turning back onto the garden path. She headed around the women and went down to the cupid’s statue, where now out of sight, she carefully hid the purloined bracelet, and still warm fiery pendent and its ‘fancy silvery braided chain..

**

She then headed towards the unsuspecting flower admirer. The ladies’ long brunette hair had fallen, flowing down the backside of her shiny taffeta gown. Angie could see rings and a bracelet gleaming as she was holding up the rose to her face. A long double rope of pearls hung swaying deliciously from her throat. Coming up behind her Angie stood watching; calculating until the lady rose and with a start realized she was not alone.

**

Pretty Angie said, her eyes on the pearls now draping down the front of her marks yellow gown. They are lovely, are they not? The damsel responded thinking Angie was referring to the roses. Just like the ones in the park, my husband and I walked through on our way to catch a cab today. Actually, I meant your dress Angie said complimentary. Thank you the lady practically squealed, I love the way it flows, and she swirled it about to show Angie, who got an eyeful of sparkly jewelry for her efforts. As she continued engaging the women in conversation, Angie decided upon attempting for the woman’s necklace of pearl. Seeing opportunity knocking when Yellow Taffeta pulled her long hair forward so it hang down the front of her gorgeous gown, laying silkily over one shoulder, nicely exposing the pricy necklaces clasp. Angie looked around, they were alone, out of site of the opposite end of the garden where the inside door was, and the guards hut with it’s pretty occupant.

**

Angie, using the marks interest in roses to her advantage, managed to steer the capricious damsel in shiny yellow over to the cupid’s statue. There, she placed a hand upon a silky taffeta covered shoulder, and pointed down to the shrub of moss roses growing at the foot of the statue . When she stooped down to get a closer look, Angie’s fingers whisked from her marks shoulder to the clasp, in a single effort with two fingers, lifted it by the clasp, and snapped it open. At that moment the mark cried “spider” and jumped up, backing into Angie, who watched helplessly as the pearls fell down from the damsel’s throat and slipped along the front of the yellow taffeta gown. They fell with a soft plop unto the ground at their mistress’s feet. Angie tried to lead her away, hoping to come back and reclaim the necklace. But as Angie pointed to another rose bush some distance away, the lady took a step forward, instead of back, planting her feet right onto the pearl necklace. Hey she exclaiming, what’s that, looking down to her high heeled foot? Oh, my pearls the lady squealed again, a glittering hand shooting to feel around her throat. Angie reached down, and reluctantly retrieved them from the base of the rose bush for the squealing lady in yellow . My husband would not have been pleased if I had lost these, she said as Angie held them, feeling their pricey smoothness.

**

She asked if Angie could help her put them on, my maid usually does this sort of thing, you know. Angie reluctantly complied, re- hanging the pearls as the pretty damsel held up her hair, and reluctantly redid the clasp. The Damsel thanked Angie by embracing her in a full hug, her diamond and pearl earring hitting Angie’s cheek. But Angie’s arms were being held by the hugging woman, so Angie was able to only watch the tantalizingly close earring sway free. Angie left yellow-gowned damsel in the garden, getting nothing for her efforts other than the feel of an expensive gown of the likes she could probably never afford to own.

**

With the pretty damsel hovering around the cupid statue, Angie decided to go back into the reception hall until the coast was clear. She carefully looked towards the Guards hut, and seeing that the guard had returned, figured the girl, so fetchingly clad in blue, had been rousted out, so that loose end was probably tied up. She just had to keep a careful eye out. The quite valuable bracelet and pricy necklace with its pendent were well hidden; there was absolutely no danger of someone stumbling over it.

**

Truth was, Angie had found her appetite wetted and once again visions of a lady in chocolate brown satin exhibiting a row of flashy diamonds, teased her thoughts. An accomplished pickpocket like herself had a couple of well-practiced ploys she could utilize to obtain a tight fitting necklace from its mistress. In addition, Angie was now determined to find her and to risk a try. She had really nothing to lose.

**

It took almost an hour of hunting amongst the now well liquored, gaily mingling crowd before Angie could admit to herself that there was absolutely no sign of the willowy lady in the stunning chocolate satin gown. Damn she thought to herself, those diamonds were something special. She shrugged it off, reciting in her mind a wicked little mantra of hers, “Another one who got away, a chance to lose her jewels to Angie on another day!” She strolled about pondering on what her next course of action could be. There had been no sign of the pretty girl in blue whose necklace Angie now had hidden away, and Miss Green Velvet was definitely out of the picture, so she felt that it was still safe to try to pluck one last bird or chick. In her hunt for the brown, Angie had seen several inviting prospects; one lady(purple satin, diamonds), two girls( ivory silk, pearled pin; red satin, gold necklace set with chips of precious stones), and now was weighing the risks.

It was at that point she once again espied the thickly bespectacled awkwardly introverted young lady invitingly wearing the thick silver satin ruffled blouse, which she had been tailing much earlier. And as Angie watched here, she again accepted the invitation. Her prey had appeared on the dance floor, being led around by a rather charming young man. That would make a dandy consolation prize Angie drooled to herself happily as she took in the sparkling show put on by the dancers jewels.

**

Angie looked her over, reacquainting herself with the jewels she so nicely was displaying. A pair of long earrings cascaded down from her earlobes where they precariously held on by antique silver claps. Angie relished the opportunity to “flimp” pairs of earrings like these. Heavily jeweled, each one was worth a tidy sum. Angie mulled this as she continued to study the jewels of her appealingly dressed new target.

**

The girl’s only ring was a solitaire diamond of at least 3 carets on a thick solid gold band worn vulnerably loose on her un-gloved, bare ring finger. A wide silver cuff bracelet with what appeared to be at least seven rows of matching, shimmering diamonds was dangling around her left wrist (she was right handed Angie observed) . The bracelet had a habit of lying over her sleeve, and Angie could see that it was a costly tiffany piece, whose clasp was exceptionally easy to flick open. A diamond pendent hung swinging from her satiny ruffles, held by an extravagantly thick silver chain with a simple , small eye in hook clasp. The Diamonds in the pendent were as shimmery as stars plucked from the night’s sky.

Angie remembered reading that in a poem from a book she had picked up years earlier in a library, while stalking a young mother in a satin dress, wearing an authentic Gruen Watch on one wrist, and a bracelet of diamonds on the other, that had gone into the library in pursuit of her young son running inside. Like that young mother, It was obvious that this lady in silver satin was not accustomed to wearing jewels, and that set probably spent most of their days lying in a safe. Angie licked her lips as she imagined what the other contents of that safe might look like

**

Angie moved in to allow herself a much closer appraisal of her potential victim’s jewels.

The young lady was totally oblivious to anything but the rather surprisingly strikingly handsome man who to all appearances was her Fiancée, who was holding her ever so close. But Angie was able to see enough of what she wanted to. The young Ladies’ thick satin blouse shone richly in the lights, moving like glistening wet liquid silver, while from her waist spilled the long black skirt with satiny tiers that swished and swayed nicely along her figure as she uneasily danced. Her jewels were bursting with colour as they played hide and seek with Angie’s watchful eyes. From all appearances, they were a mismatched couple. He seemed to know everyone and moved with a confident air, she was just the opposite. It made an enticingly intriguing package indeed for someone with Angie’s skills.

**

Silver Satin was the perfect “Gaston Monescu” type of mark, a perfect combination of classic mannerisms, clothing and Jewels worth anyone’s efforts to take. This was the only fly in the ointment that Angie observed. For by the bar she could see that two other sets of eyes were watching the same young lady in shiny satin and blazing diamonds. Angie intuitively knew they were drooling over acquiring jewels she was wearing.

**

She had noticed the pair of young men in loose fitting suits when they had entered a little earlier about the same time as Angie’s reappearance. They were obviously casing the jewels of any woman, young, or old, who walked past them. Angie knew their type, simple thieves, with no real skills outside of holding a knife in a dark alley to the throat of their victim while they unceremoniously searched and stripped them of their treasures. Angie saw that they were whispering amongst themselves and instinctively knew they were watching and waiting for the fetchingly clumsy silver clad lady clad loaded with diamonds, to leave the “establishment”.

**

She is mine Angie whispered, possessively snarling the words under her breath. She looked around as she thought about how best to handle the situation. Her eyes opened wide as she saw a familiar woman waiting by the coat checkroom. Perfect she purred, placing an unlit a cigarette in her mouth and heading over the bar.

**

She sauntered up next to them and ordered a drink, catching their eyes she asked for a light. As they obliged she took a pull and puffed out smoke, asking in a casual tone, “how about my jewels? Boys!” They could see perfectly well that she was not wearing any, and one snarled, “What’s your game, sister?” Angie snarled back in her best cop like manner, “We know what you boys are up to, and we suggest you both call it a night!” “Yer no cop sister”, they challenged, calling her bluff,” what’s your angle!” Angie calmly looked towards the entrance, perfect she mused as she saw their eyes follow hers, “Maybe not” she stated, “but see that lady being helped into the black mink?” “The shiny yellow dame?” one of em asked? “ “yes”, Angie replied taking a puff on her cigarette before going on, “ well that man’s she’s with used to be mine .” “ Now, I aint one to hold a grudge, but, those pearls she’s waltzing around with are worth plenty. And her rings, they are an easy two grand alone.”

**

Angie could tell she had captured their interest, and that they were now paying rapt attention to the lady in the thick yellow taffeta gown whose necklace Angie had almost acquired in the serenity garden. One of them looked at Angie, a suspicious look crossing his mug, “What’s innit for you sister?!” He demanded. Angie looked at him, dripping with sarcastic innocence. “Nothing brother, other than to make sure the jewels of the dame who stole my husband get home safely .” “I just worry,’ Angie went on, “there is a park in front of their residence and that dame in yellow likes to stroll through it to smell the roses after their cab drops them off.” They watched the couple leave, her expensive yellow gown sweeping provocatively at her gold high- heeled shoed feet. Angie looked them in the eyes and said smoothly, “ Gentlemen such as yourselves may want to do a good deed and follow them home to make sure some miscreant doesn’t spot her in those valuable jewels and mink. Not to mention her man’s gold watch and three hundred sawbucks in his wallet!” Angie winked at the pair, “If you catch my drift.” She added.

**

Still not totally convinced about what Angie was selling them, but equally unsure over who Angie was, both men got up and quickly headed towards the main exit as the last slip of an expensive yellow taffeta gown disappeared through the door. Smugly, Angie puffed on her cigarette as she watched them leave.

**

It was then that a hand was placed on Angie’s shoulder from behind.

**

She froze for a split second, before becoming aware of the soft mummer of satin, and of a slender finger was home to a sparkling sapphire ring. Angie smiled and turned around, facing the girl. Pardon me ma’am, she says politely, but do you remember me? Of course dear, Angie gushes while beaming at the forlorn looking miss in the fetching blue gown; I met you in the garden. Yes she confirms, but I lost my necklace somewhere and I was wondering if you remember if I had it on when we met? Angie’s heart leapt, bless this babe in the woods, thinking her necklace had merely been lost, never suspecting that someone like, say, Angie could have been the cause. She absolutely adored the trusting nature of rich girls this age. For that aspect of their purity had allowed Angie, far too easily sometimes, to lift many a jewel from well attired unsuspecting young princesses like this one. Who was now standing before her, miserable, her desirable diamond and sapphire earrings dangling ever so beckoningly, her sad puppy eyes pleading ever so sweetly, and her missing necklace closer than she could ever imagine.

**

No dear, I did not see you with a necklace, Angie lied coolly, as she reached out and stroked the girl tenderly alongside her face, her fingers touching one of the earrings. Angie was looking her fully in the eye, you didn’t lose anything else, and did you dear she asked with a concerned tone. The girl checked her earrings, bracelet and ring (Angie smiled to herself, silently thinking thanks for the info kid!) But when she spoke, it was with hopeful words laced with honey, If you want, I can help you look, my dear. The girl’s eyes lit up for a second, thank you ma’am, I wanted to, but papa said to wait until tomorrow when the light is better.

Angie smiled winningly, don’t worry dear, I’m sure its somewhere in the garden. Someone will find it, she promised, thinking to herself maliciously, and keep it for their own profit!

**

Thank you Ma’am she chirped, at the encouraging words that had been spoken, luckily she could not hear the ones Angie was thinking to herself, and turning moved off, her scrumptious gown swishing pleasantly around her silver heels. Angie watched, as the girl disappeared in the crowd Angie marked her direction.

**

Angie Imagined if the girl had accepted her offer, and she had left with the vulnerable, unguarded princess to search in the garden, and in the process help relieve her of her remaining jewels. There would be enough light with the gas lamps that lined the paths in the garden. Enough light, so that as Angie helped the princess look, her fingers could slip ever so delicately slip in and search along her shiny sky blue gown.

**

Angie licked her lips slowly as she fantasied about the search. The girl bending down to look under a bush, Angie placing her knee sharply in a certain spot below the girl’s armpit, temporarily numbing her upper body. Allowing Angie enough time to pull off both her earrings without feeling it,( this also worked well on working off broaches placed in upper parts of gowns and dresses, not to mention necklaces!) The bracelet would be no problem; it would be the easiest and probably the first, snatched off while the rich girl’s attention was easily diverted away. Since she was not wearing silky gloves, her ring would be the trickiest, but manageable, by either having her walk too close to a water fountain and hopefully having her get her fingers wet, or by simple holding onto her hand and tripping her by stepping on her gowns hem. And just like that, Angie would become that much richer, the rich girl that much poorer. And it all would be done without giving the girl any additional stress, like say she had run into the two muggers Angie had chased off. They may not have been content with just the jewels of a girl dressed as she was that they had found wandering alone in the gardens at night.

**

As Angie excitedly thought about these things, she had trained her focus back upon her original meal ticket, whom for the second time that evening had almost been allowed to slip through Angie’s light fingers. Watching with half lidded eyes, the still dancing couple not unlike a wolf watches lambs, waiting for one to make an ill-fated move away from the flock. The lamb’s fate was sealed, when a vivacious blonde in a long wispy silken dress cut in on the dancing couple. Asking miss silver satin’s fiancé for a dance. He obliged, leaving his shimmering fiancée unaccompanied, nakedly exposed to the wolf that was Angie.

**

More than one way to skin a cat Angie thought, tingling from the thrill of the hunt her prey, now in a reachable situation. She happily headed towards the spot where Miss silver satin had moved off to. A small table, located conveniently by a powder room. One the way she grabbed a half full glass of red wine off a table. Angie circled around young miss silver satin, taking a position up about two table lengths behind her. She casually scoured the area; most of the nearby tables were deserted.

Knowing the band would stop playing soon for the evening; most of the couples were out on the dance floor. All in all, the situation presented the perfect opportunity for some one of Angie’s persuasion.

**

Angie watched as the young lady picked up a glittery silver clutch and opening it, started to search inside. Angie moved swiftly, catching up behind her , tripping intentionally into her, splashing some wine onto the front of the silver satin blouse as the unfortunate lady dropped her purse in surprise. Oh my gosh, I did not see you, miss silver satin pleaded apologetically to Angie, more concerned over Angie’s feelings than her soiled satin blouse. Angie accepted her apology and, producing a lacey silk handkerchief, began to wipe themselves both down.

Angie’s practiced eyes swiftly took it all in. Miss silver satin’s pretty earrings swaying out vulnerably from her long straggly hair as it fell into her face. The clasp of her necklace was also exposed and within easy grasp. A s she reached out for the floor to steady herself, Angie’s eyes took in the sparkling ring on her now wetted finger and then watched the wide bracelet with its’ easily open able clasp slip up glitteringly over her sleeve.

The girl, now thoroughly flustered, started to rise, tripping over her slippery long skirt( with no help from Angie) Angie caught her, taking advantage of the split second opening she had been waiting for and Angie took it, making her selection as she steadied the poor thing with one hand, as the other caressed along a slick silver satin back. Angie’s long supple fingers darted in and deftly did their trick, this time with no spiders interfering. She quickly removed her chosen glittery prize from the distracted lady, who never noticed so much as a prick as Angie removed the expensive piece from her person in the confusion.

**

Angie secreted he shiny jewel as she helped miss silver satin collect herself. Than they rose, and Angie happily accepted miss silver satin profuse and obviously well used, apology. Then, as she fumbled nervously with her thick glasses, Angie laid a calming hand upon her shoulder, her fingers relishing in the richness of her victims sleek ruffled blouse. Miss silver satin was by now so distracted and embarrassed that Angie was all but assured of a clean get away.

However, as an extra measure of caution Angie intentionally jarred silver satin’s elbow of the hand steadying her eye glasses. Thus sending her glasses falling from her face to the floor with a small clatter, then Angie kicked them under a table before the startled lady could react. Angie offered to help, but the lady implored that she was okay, just needed to find her glasses. Angie left as Miss silver satin started to frantically grope around for her glasses, her silver blouse and remaining jewels shimmering brightly along their miserable mistress..

Angie took her leave, knowing that once she found her glasses, Miss silver satin would flee for sanctuary into the ladies powder room, buying her more than enough time for Angie to make her escape. Taking one last look over the dance floor, she blithely saw that miss silver satins fiancé was still in the clutches of the vivacious blonde-haired girl, still safely out of the picture. Angie made her way with purpose to the rear exit leading to the garden that she had used earlier, intending to head out into the serenity garden to collect the hidden bracelet and pendent, adding them to her purloined plunder.

**

As she walked amongst the mostly deserted tables, her mind went to the woman in yellow taffeta and imagined that right about now she would be standing with raised arms and a forlorn look. Ruefully wincing as the man who was holding her mink busily stripped those luscious pearls from the neckline of her tight gown, as the shiny yellow material gleamed in the moonlight! Serves her right for being afraid of spiders, Angie thought unforgivingly.

***

Angie’s mind also went to the poor young princess in blue with the missing necklace. She looked towards the area she had headed, opposite of the back exit to the garden. She reluctantly decided not to push her luck, there was a sister and parents to contend with, and she really had no time left. So she decided to call it a day, a rather successful day, and made her way to retrieve her loot.

**

Angie had now reached the now deserted table by the back exit where the lady in the crimson gown and blood red rubies had been earlier, along with her rhinestone encumbered 10 year old daughter and handsome husband.

**

She paused between the table and the bench, something was not quite right, She eyed the area around the dance floor for any signs of trouble that may be centered on the quite valuable jewels now in her possession. All was quiet, except for a little murmur behind her. Turning she looked at the bench and was shocked to discover the soundly asleep ten year old, using the long rusty sable fur as a blanket. What have we here, Angie thought, licking her lips wickedly?

**

Angie pursed her lips, checking the coast; spotting the young girl’s parents, still on the dance floor, a safe distance away the other side of the room. No sign of miss silver satin. No one else was nearby. Perfect. She went over, bending down so the table hid her. The child looked so vulnerably innocent, sound asleep as she lay on her side, facing Angie. She was clutching an arm of the sable like a warm fuzzy teddy bear, her ring sparkling. Angie gently tugged the mink from the girl’s clasp, and gradually pulled until the fur swished away from along the inert silken figure on the bench, where it fell into a pile on the floor. The child looked very innocent, very vulnerable, like a sleeping princess. An earring lay exposed over one shoulder, her necklace dangled down slightly askew from her slender throat, the pin holding her sash, all of which shone brightly now that it was exposed to the low lights of the ballroom, still called out. Too bad, Angie thought to herself, too bad the mother had not dressed her little doll in real diamonds.

**

Angie again looked to the dance floor; she could see the mother’s jewelry twinkling brightly as the child’s parents danced close, very unaware of anything else but themselves. She looked back over the girl, contemplating. But the song was winding down, Angie stooped to pick up the sable, bird in hand she thought, and placing the rich fur over her arm, stood just as the song ended. Looking at the exit door, so near and yet so far, she started to hasten to it, but checked herself as the band immediately started another, rather slow song that Angie knew quite well.

**

She hesitated, incredibly, everyone was staying on the floor for the final dance, she looked back at the bench, and the sleeping imps exposed jewels still shined, tempting her to come for them. Angie knew that she would only have about four minutes. Always open to new challenges, Angie chose to answer that sweet little invite that the necklace was extending out to her. Checking once again to make sure the parents was still obliviously dancing; she laid the mink down by the door and eased back to the bench. Kneeling down, Angie began to perform the delicate operation.

**

Lifting up the necklace she gently tugged it loose from around the sleeping child’s neck until the clasp appeared. She subtly flicked open the clasp, then shamelessly slipped the necklace from around its perch on the little whelp’s throat. It flickered like some slithering shiny snake, glittering as it came away. Like taking candy from a baby, Angie drooled happily, as she let the necklace run along her fingertips while watching the sleeping princess for a few seconds.

**

Her fitted cream coloured dress shimmered with expensive richness in the shadowy light. The poor thing was so soundly asleep after her long exhausting day that Angie figured she could have peeled the dress off her without causing a stir. This for a pickpocket would be the ultimate test, the pinnacle of her criminal class. But, Angie thought; if she ever had the opportunity to do so, it would have to be worth her while, like a shiny gown, an appealing sky blue gown with half sleeves and scooped collar. And the jewels would be sapphire drop earrings, bracelet and ring, not plain rhinestones. She licked her lips at the enticing thought of such a perfect “coup fera”, than told herself to get back to work, time was money.

**

She slipped her hand along the satin cape being used as a pillow and felt under the girls head until she felt the cold earring she was laying upon. Deftly undoing the screw she pulled it free, watching with delight as it came out from underneath.

**

Angie than, gently lifted, and nimbly stroked back the girl’s ultra-soft hair, exposing her long silvery earring. She pulled the jewel out and laid it out upon the child’s shoulder, where it lay, shimmering vibrantly. Then she reached in with her fingers and began unscrewed its clasp. Pulling it free she added it to her growing collection. She next lifted the hand that had held the warm sable, gently prying open her clenched fingers. The sleeping child never stirred. Angie gently slipped off the glittering ring. She then peeled back a silky sleeve, checking for the bracelet, finding her wrist was bare. The rest of the jewels were hiding securely on the side she was laying upon. Smiling wickedly to herself, an idea popped into Angie’s head.

**

The music was now almost to the halfway point, and Angie thought for a brief second that she should leave . Another quick scan assured her the coast was still clear, and Angie decided to press her luck, eagerly going back to work, putting her idea into motion.

Angie fingers felt along the sleeping child’s waist until she located the brooch. Quickly unfastening the brooch from the chocolate satin sash, she pulled it out. Watching as the diamonds caught fire and burst into vibrant life, unusually vivid for plain rhinestones she thought contemplatively. Angie plopping it in with the growing pile of the sleeping girls purloined baubles. Again reaching in along the warm waist, Angie gradually tugged at the now undone sash. The sleeping girl, unconsciously obliged by turning over on her other side, as the sash was pulled away.

**

Her arm with the ring and bracelet was now exposed. Lifting the arm , and peeling back the puffy sleeve, Angie found and unclasped the bracelet, slipping it away, then allowing it to dangle in triumph before letting it join its purloined mates. Then lifting the child’s hand she pulled at the ring, it was a little tight. Angie licked her fingers, and moistened the girls finger, than began slipping the ring off ever so gently from the along her finger. Almost there, Angie thought, as the ring joined its abducted companions in her pocket.

**

As Angie finished pocketing the last of the girls jewels, her victim whimpers something discernible in her sleep, her small hand feeling to pull up the missing warm sable she had been using as a blanket. Angie quickly looked around, spying a cheap linen coat hanging on a nearby hook, she grasped it and laid it over the stirring girl, stroking her for a precious few seconds. Then rising, calmly Angie snatched a shiny purse from the table, and moved off, unbelieving of her luck. She reclaimed the sable fur, and strolled out the door without looking back.

**

As Angie closed the door she heard the last notes of the song waning from inside. She licked her lip, that was close, but her luck had held. Now all that remained was to visit the Cupid Statue In the garden to reclaim her other prizes. As she reached the statue, Angie realized that she still had the child’s satin sash in her hand.

She smiled as she tied it, blindfolding the cupid statues eyes. Retrieving and pocketing the now stone cold diamond bracelet, and the young Princess in blue’s necklace with its shimmering pendent, she slowly looked around, the cost was clear. Angie coolly made her way to the gate, the bored guard offering to help her with the mink she was carrying. , Angie stopped, and handed it to him. Then turning, allowed him to help her on with it. He puffed out his chest as Angie gave him a sweet smile; she thanked him, then turned and disappeared into the darkness of the night.

**

Angie disappeared from view into the foggy evening, relishing the warmth of the sensuous sable. Happily contemplating the small fortune in jewels it had been in contact with earlier that evening, and also the small fortune she had walked out of the reception with in her possession.

**

The guard watched the spot for some time where the pretty lady in the expensive fur had vanished in the mists. He fantasized for a good few minutes, wondered what had been behind the enchantingly secret smile she had given to him.

Excuse me, sir?, a female voice coming from the garden startles him, he had never heard anyone coming.

He turns, catching an eyeful of a long glamourous, brown satin gown, worn fetchingly by a willowy short haired pretty young thing. Diamonds blazed from around her throat, caught by the gas lights, and from around her white satin gloved wrists as she raised her hands in a pleading fashion.

She continues, pointing to a young girl in a smashing blue satin gown, bending over looking for something in the bushes. My sister lost her necklace and pendent while playing around here earlier, did you or anyone find it? She asked in a rather seductive tone of voice9 not a common, it was her regular voice)

No lady, no one turned in a necklace. Thank you sir, and she turns away, her gown flowing out behind her.

He watches for a minute as she and her sister both move elegantly down the path, continuing their search.

He sighed, and turns away, babysitting rich dames he mutters under his breath, what a dismal way to make a living. Why won’t this affair ever end he asked himself, as he reached for his silver pocket watch to check the time. Damnations he said, not finding it nor its chain and fob, must have dropped it in the alley earlier where I had gone for a nipper from his flask. He sauntered off quickly to the alley located in the direction Angie had disappeared, abandoning his post.

Soon after, a pair of dark figures who had been walking on the opposite side of the street, and had stopped to loiter when they spied the guard talking to some posh broad in a shiny brown dress, saw the guard leaving his post. They quickly stole with sinister intent across the road and entered into the gardens, disappearing into the darkness.

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This ended up being Angie’s first big score, She got more for the rhinestone set then she had imagined, the small brooch taken off the brown satin sash had proved to have real diamonds in its center! Also the princess in silky sky blue’s pendent and chain had fetched a nice tidy sum. The jewels lifted from the ladies in Green and Silver also realized quite a handsome profit, as did the sable and purse.

if one includes the real diamond ring slipped off the finger of a silky dressed debutante from the prom show and her rather nice haul of a slim pearl necklace and diamond pin from the Opera, the whole weekend was unimaginably successful.

**

From the profit realized, she had been able to spend a pleasant month away in Monte Carlo, even indulging in the purchase of a rich red wine coloured taffeta gown to wear.

Which she pleasantly found that, when paired with her deftly acquired collection of dripping rhinestone diamond jewelry, she attracted wealthy young males with expensive gold watches and fat wallets like honey bee drones to a bright moss rose.

**

She also enticed a long raven haired, Miss, richly clad in emerald silk, to enter into her snare.

But Angie did not make an entirely clean get away. For the last jewel to be taken was the girl’s brooch , and before Angie could hide it with the rest, the girl spotted its’ glitter in Angie’s hand, and with a gasp had looked down on her dress at the now vacant spot where it had been dangling ever so provocatively for Angie all evening.. Angie smiled at the girl as she had looked up in confusion. The girl had placed a hand to her throat, startled when feeling it bare of her necklace. She looked at Angie in hurt confusion, her eyes wide with fright. Angie placed a finger to the girl’s lips, hushing any fuss she may have been thinking of making over her missing jewelry, and turning her back to the forlorn miss, Angie left, not looking back….

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But that was a story for another day, so we were promised by Angie, giving us an all too familiar look of devious satisfaction at making us wait.

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Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Scan kindly provided by Michael Röser for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

October 1974

G-AZLP

Vickers 813 Viscount

346

British Midland Airways (BMA)

Information from flickr - thanks to Ken Fielding (slightly shortened):

This aircraft was delivered to SAA South African Airways in Oct-58 as ZS-CDT. The aircraft was sold to BMA British Midland Airways in Jan-72. In May-86 it was sold to British Aerospace in part exchange for B.Ae ATP's. In Jun-86 it was sold to Dowty Aerospace for spares recovery of specific parts (props & gearboxes). It was sold to Technical Aeroparts later the same month and stripped for remaining spares. The hull was donated to the Civil Aviation Authority Fire School at Teesside in late 1986. It was finally broken up in late 2013 and the nose section was donated to the Brooklands Museum.

Detailed history of this airframe including many photos:

www.vickersviscount.net/Index/VickersViscount346History.aspx

This airframe as ZS-CDT with South African Airways at JNB ca. late 1950s:

live.staticflickr.com/65535/49378942678_0a3a4e2b4b_b.jpg

ZS-CDT with South African Airways at JNB in December 1971 (later colours):

www.vickersviscount.net/images/Photos_Medium/101731.jpg

G-AZLP with BMA in basic South African Airways colours at JNB in January 1972:

www.flickr.com/photos/brunogeiger/24080399904

G-ALZP’s fuselage at North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland, in September 2012:

www.flickr.com/photos/39845522@N04/7984779320

G-AZLP’s nose section preserved at Brooklands Museum in February 2019:

www.flickr.com/photos/erwinalexander/47147413771

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Photo taken by Manfred Kaffine kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

May 1976

B-2410 (1)

Boeing 707-3J6C

20718 / 872

Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)

Note: B-2410 (2) is Airbus A320-214 c/n 2437 flying for China Eastern Airlines since April 2005.

The first CAAC aircraft to visit Riem caused quite a sensation among Munich spotters when it landed at the airport on 14 May 1976. However, from that day on B-2410 would return many times throughout the remaining 1970s and early 1980s.

The aircraft transported live stock (cattle) from Bavaria to China - this must have been part of a large-scale, long-term deal, but I couldn’t find any information about it on the net. The Chinese always sent the same aircraft, and on many of the visits, it was parked on the same stand. Ironically, the cattle transporter would become the last 707 to operate passenger flights in China (source: Daryl Chapman on flickr).

First flight on 5 October 1973 and delivered to CAAC as 2410 on 12 November 1973 (later re-registered as B-2410). To China Southwest Airlines in November 1983. To Flying Dolphin Airlines as B-513L in March 1998, later re-registered A6-ZYD. Seen with Air Gulf Falcon in January 2001 and reported with Dolphin Air in August 2005. Ended up stored at Tripoli-Mitiga (MJI) (Source: planelogger.com).

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/B-2410/493334

This airframe as 2410 with CAAC at RNT in September 1973 pre-first flight:

www.flickr.com/photos/aero_icarus/13905159907

B-2410 with China Southwest at Guangzhou (CAN/ZGGG) in April 1996:

www.flickr.com/photos/darylchapman/9388013567

This airframe as B-513L with Flying Dolphin at SHJ in March 1998:

cdn.plnspttrs.net/04332/b-513l-untitled-boeing-707-3j6c_P...

This airframe as A6-ZYD at SHJ in October 1999:

www.flickr.com/photos/128485084@N08/47392326201

Scan from Kodak medium format (6 x 6 cm) slide, cropped to 3:2 aspect ratio.

Provided by Hope International

Photo from the Michael Bernhard collection, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

1972-12-31 (31 December 1972)

G-AZZC "Eastern Belle"

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10

46905/47

Laker Airways

A very early DC-10 visitor to Riem, possibly the second one, seen only a few days after the first visit of the type on 23 December 1972 with THY's TC-JAV.

Laker DC-10s were among the first widebodies at Riem in the early 1970s along with those from THY, ONA, Swissair, KLM and TIA.

Information from airliners.net - thanks to Ian Gains:

G-AZZC was Laker Airways 1st DC-10, and the 1st DC-10 on the United Kingdom Civil Register. Built in 1972, she served with Laker for 10 years. In those years, DC-10-30's and A300's had joined their fleet, so she moved on to a plethora of carriers and home bases until the mid 1990's. She was eventually broken up at Marana, AZ in 1998.

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-AZZC/651276

G-AZZC with Malaysian Airline System at PER in January 1980:

www.airhistory.net/photos/0053401.jpg

G-AZZC with Laker at MAN in April 1981 (Skytrain titles) - see here for a detailed history of the airframe:

www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/5601358126

This airframe as N902CL at LTN in October 1982 (ex-Laker colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/132337785@N03/17016509606

N902CL with Arrow Air at ORY in ca. 1983:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/40485412893

This airframe as N902JW with Dominicana at JFK in 1984:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/3/7/0166731.jpg

N902JW with World Airways at SFO in ca. 1985:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/46536211065

This airframe as N52UA with Spantax at ORY ca. 1988:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/46020397741

This airframe as N102UA with Malaysia Airlines in January 1990:

www.flickr.com/photos/aero_icarus/5659116285

N102UA with World Airways at ATH in September 1990:

www.flickr.com/photos/24101413@N03/7046008227

N102UA with SCIBE Airlift at LHR in June 1992:

www.flickr.com/photos/chrischenn76/37444546972

N102UA with Transtar at LAX ca. 1993:

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/92225_1097704006.jpg

This airframe as N573SC with Sun Country at DUS in September 1995:

www.flickr.com/photos/axel_j/3855585444

N573SC derelict at MZJ in July 1998:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/8/0/4/0226408.jpg

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Parks, Gordon,, 1912-2006,, photographer.

Washington, D.C. Air raid wardens' meeting in zone nine, Southwest area. Air raid wardens attending a meeting in their headquarters which is provided by the landlord in the basement of a large apartment building

1942 July.

1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.

Notes:

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Subjects:

United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)

Format: Safety film negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2002708960

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b14829

Call Number: LC-USF34- 013391-C

Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Scan kindly provided by Stephan Barth for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

April 1978

N8711E "Miss Indy"

Boeing 720-025

18240/246

Ambassadair

Ambassadair‘s Boeing 720 N8711E with additional "United States of America" titles stayed at Riem from 24 to 27 April 1978, parked out in the "Westpilz" area.

The aircraft started its career with Eastern Airlines in January 1962 and went on to Germany’s Calair as D-ACIR in December 1970. It served several travel clubs in the 1970s and early 1980s and was abandoned by its last operator, Aerotours Dominicano, at Port-Au-Prince in the eighties (broken up in March 1999). (Source: Stephan Barth on airhistory.net, rzjets.net)

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N8711E/490403

N8711E with Eastern Air Lines ca. mid-1960s:

www.flickr.com/photos/flskydvr/35639745436

N8711E with Club America at SFO ca. early 1970s:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/35534901015

This airframe as D-ACIR with Calair at BSL in July 1971:

www.bsl-mlh-planes.net/bigpicture/picture_id/10355

N8711E and N8790R with Ambassadair withdrawn from use at IND ca. 1981:

www.flickr.com/photos/148364615@N05/50073213622

N8711E with Windwalkers Air Country Club ca. early 1980s:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/36904512245

N8711E with Aerotours Dominicano ca. mid-1980s:

photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-srqrGPn/0/X2/i-srqrGPn-X2.jpg

N8711E with Aerotours Dominicano wfu at PAP in November 1996:

www.flickr.com/photos/pslg05896/23067353494

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Photo taken by Manfred Kaffine and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

1976-11-04 (4 November 1976)

N7201U

Boeing 720-022

17907 / 85

McCulloch International Airlines

(leased to Peter Frampton for the Frampton Comes Alive tour)

"Starship 1" is heading to runway 25 for take-off, with Peter Frampton on board.

Information from thisdayinaviation:

23 November 1959: The first Boeing 720 airliner, a 720-022, registered as N7201U, made its first flight at Renton, Washington. The 720 was a development of the 707 and no prototype was built. N7201U was used by Boeing for flight testing and was then delivered to United Airlines, 1 October 1960. The airline named the new 720 Jet Mainliner Capt. F. M. Crismore. Over the next two years, United acquired 29 Boeing 720s.

N7201U was sold to Contemporary Entertainment, owned by singer Bobby Sherman and his manager, Ward Sylvester, in January 1973. It was repainted in a gold and black livery and christened The Starship. As a VIP transport, it was used by such rock bands as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper and Elton John. It was last chartered by Peter Frampton.

N7201U was withdrawn from service in 1977 and after being stored for several years, was broken up at Luton Airport near London, England, in 1982.

More information from powerpop.blog:

powerpop.blog/2019/10/20/the-starship-airplane-n7201u/

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N7201U/489855

N7201U with Boeing ca. 1959:

www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/48087091531

N7201U with United at SFO in 1967:

www.flickr.com/photos/34076827@N00/7859006658

N7201U with Contemporary Entertainment at LAX in September 1973:

www.flickr.com/photos/52810288@N05/6278533701

N7201U with MCA Records/Elton John at BFI in October 1974:

www.flickr.com/photos/138175399@N04/24801088856

N7201U with (leased to Gary Wright) at LGB in April 1978:

www.flickr.com/photos/52810288@N05/6884060820/in

N7201U with AeroAmerica at SHN in September 1978:

www.flickr.com/photos/shanair/11816014964

N7201U tail-less at LTN in May 1982:

www.flickr.com/photos/132337785@N03/21930853508

Scan from Kodak medium format (6 x 6 cm) slide (cropped to 3:2 aspect ratio).

Photo taken by Herwart Schneider and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

April 1971

G-ASIX 'Loch Maree'

Vickers VC10 Srs1103

820

Caledonian/BUA

G-ASIX with the short-lived Caledonian/BUA titles which were applied just after the merger. Noted again at Riem on 6 February 1972 with British Caledonian Airways. This aircraft would later become quite a regular visitor to Munich-Riem as A4O-AB with Oman Royal Flight.

Information from flickr - thanks to heathrow junkie:

c/n 820 - Vickers VC-10-1103 - delivered new to British United Airways in October 1964 as G-ASIX. BUA merged with Caledonian in 1970 to form British Caledonian Airways, and the aircraft flew with Caledonian until the VC-10 fleet was replaced with Boeing 707s in 1974. The aircraft was sold to the Omani Government for VIP conversion for the Sultan's Royal Flight. The aircraft flew in this role registered A4O-AB from 1975 until retirement in 1987. As the Sultan apparently was keen to see the aircraft preserved, a deal was struck with the Brooklands Museum in which the VC10 would return to its birthplace and remain there as a tribute to all the VC-10s that were built at the site. The aircraft was flown in from Heathrow on 6th July 1987.

Detailed history of this airframe including many photos:

www.vc10.net/History/Individual/GASIX.html

G-ASIX taking off for its first flight on 17 October 1964 (initial BUA colours):

www.vc10.net/Airframes/Images/G-ASIX_First_flight.jpg

G-ASIX with BUA at MAN in 1970 (later colours):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/2/1/0726123.jpg

G-ASIX with British Caledonian at LGW in 1972:

www.flickr.com/photos/131595817@N05/16915577519

This airframe as A4O-AB with Oman Royal Flight at BOH in November 1974 (basic BCAL colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/swbkcb/3668164350

A4O-AB with Oman Royal Flight at Riem in July 1981 (initial colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/161645265@N08/47934788607/in

A4O-AB with Oman Royal Flight at Riem in March 1982 (revised colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/chaika12/40189432901/in

A4O-AB with Oman Royal Flight preserved at Brooklands Museum in August 2020:

www.flickr.com/photos/ajw1970/50442550977

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Photo from the Albert Kuhbandner collection, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

1985-03-06 (6 March 1985)

I-GISU

Sud SE-210 Caravelle 10B3 Super B

169

Altair Linee Aeree

One of the football charters for the FC Bayern-AS Roma European Cup Winners' Cup match. Two other Altair Caravelles (I-GISU and I-GISI) and Unifly F28 I-TIDB were also noted.

This airframe (I-GISU) had been seen several times at Riem in the 1970s as OH-LSG with Finnair. It appears that this was going to be the last Caravelle ever to fly. Wfu by Waltair at FIH in July 2005 and broken up by 2007.

Information from flickr - thanks to Kerry Taylor:

To Sud Aviation new as F-BLKJ on 03Jul64. Sold to Finnair as OH-LSG on 31May66. Sold to Altair as I-GISU on 18Jun84.To Europe Aero Service as F-GELQ on 23May87. On to Air City as HB-ICJ Feb88. To Waltair in Congo as 9Q-CPY Nov96 and reregistered 9Q-CPI Dec96. Scrapped.

Information from airliners.net - thanks to Frank C. Duarte Jr.:

First flight was March 3, 1964. Was Prototype Caravelle 10B3 as F-WLKJ. Other serials - F-BLKJ with Sud, HB-ICJ with Aero Jet, F-CELQ with EAS - Europe Aero Service, I-GISU with Altair Linee Aeree, OH-LSG with Finnair and Compagnie de Transport Aerien, and also 9Q-CPI and 9Q-CPY with Waltair. Stored at FIH, and broken-up during July 2007.

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/9Q-CPI/751802

This airframe as OH-LSG with Finnair (earlier colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/52467480@N08/6431830547

OH-LSG with CTA, leased from Finnair:

airliners-airlines.de/fotoserien/cta/oh_lsg.jpg

OH-LSG with Finnair at Riem in May 1978:

www.flickr.com/photos/161645265@N08/49218363811/in

This airframe as F-GELQ with Air City/EAS:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/30310915907

This airframe as HB-ICJ with Air City at ZRH in 1988:

www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/15291577640

HB-ICJ with Aero Jet at GRO in March 1994:

www.flickr.com/photos/jordi757/5856542519

This airframe as 9Q-CPI with Waltair:

aviationrainbowscom.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/img1036-s...

Scan from slide (unknown brand).

Naples Fire Station No. 1 is a 22,600-SF, two-story station housing city-provided fire response, as well as county-provided EMS rescue response. It includes fire department administration, Station No. 1, EMS, emergency operations center managed by the fire department, three-apparatus bays and associated apparatus support spaces, battalion chief office, bunk room, and locker room. General facility functions such as kitchen, dining, report writing, physical agility, dormitories, restrooms and showers, and equipment / utility support spaces are also included.

The facility is designed to promote the family unit by creating an open shared space in the kitchen, dining, and dayroom. The Naples Fire Station No. 1 and Administration Building continues to support its surrounding community in a variety of ways with the building’s efficient design, implementation of technology, and alerting systems, the facility was able to reduce fire and medical response times within the city limits. An (Insurance Services Organization) ISO fire rating is a score provided to fire departments and insurance companies by the Insurance Services Office. The score reflects how prepared a community and area is for fires. Due to its completion, Naples Fire-Rescue recently achieved the ISO rating of Class 1. This improvement provides assurances to the Naples residents and businesses that the Fire-Rescue Department meets the highest national benchmarks and can even potentially reduce hazard insurance for buildings located in Naples, Florida.

The building is organized with the community in mind, first and foremost. Even though the majority of the building is built six feet above the street level for flooding protection purposes, the public lobby is designed and engineered at ground level in order to provide ease of access, as well as promote a sense of trust and transparency to the public.

The building utilizes a community space adjacent to the main lobby enabling Naples Fire Rescue Community Outreach department to offer programs such as: free CPR and AED training, home safety inspection program, smoke detector program, child safety, and Youth Academy. Unlike most fire station apparatus bays, the Naples Fire Station 1 is able to serve as an educational space and an additional venue for community events. It was designed to directly capture exhaust fumes from fire apparatus vehicles and utilizes sensors for CO2 & NO2 gasses to exhaust air as required. With the garage doors open and the oversized high volume low sped fans on, the apparatus bay was able to be utilized as a vaccination site during the Covid-19 pandemic when vaccines first became available, and people were lining up in the hot Florida sun at other facilities."

Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:

floridapeopleschoice.org/building.cfm/0354/#:~:text=Naple....

www.countyoffice.org/city-of-naples-fire-department-stati...

www.naplesgov.com/firerescue/page/fire-stationsapparatus

© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.

The Security Building is a historic site in downtown Miami, Florida. It is located at 117 Northeast 1st Avenue. On January 4, 1989, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The building has 16 floors with a height of 225 feet (69 m) and was built from 1926 to 1927.

The Dade County Security Company was organized in 1901 and moved to a nearby headquarters in 1923. By the mid-1920s the company needed a larger headquarters. In 1921, the Dade County Security Company had acquired the McKinnon Hotel which occupied a mid-block parcel on Northeast 1st Avenue and renamed it the Security Hotel. Dade Security had considered adding stories atop the hotel but opted in 1925 to raze the hotel and construct a new headquarters on the same site under the direction of architect Robert Greenfield.

Construction on the Security Building began in 1926. The building was known as the Security Building from its opening in 1927 until 1945. Upon opening, the first level and mezzanine were devoted to banking offices. The floors above provided 275 office suites and were reached by four "high speed" elevators.

The Security Building faces west onto NE 1st Avenue. It is located in mid-block with buildings on either side. Those buildings are considerably shorter than the Security Building. The building maintains a zero-foot (0 m) setback, and the entry doors open directly onto the sidewalk. There are no landscape features on the property. The building is composed of a main block parallel to the street, and a second block connected perpendicularly that extends to the east.

With only a 50-foot (15 m) frontage, the architect made a grand statement by creating an almost temple-like base, consisting of the first three stories. Engaged pilasters, that also frame the center bay, articulate the corners creating three distinct bays. Spandrels between the floors are bronze and feature relief ornament. The pilasters carry the entablature, with the name “Security Building” in incised letters. A dentilled molding ornaments the cornice that terminates this division of the building.

The fourth floor begins the transition to the high-rise portion of the building. Stone panels with a similar relief accent the corners and separate the bays. Above the windows of the fourth floor is another projecting element, a stringcourse that is ornamented with a guilloche pattern in relief.

Floors five through 13 continue the three bays with window arrangements that are grouped in pairs on each of the end bays, and are grouped in three in the center bay, emphasizing the importance of the center bay to the entire composition. The windows are a metal casement type.

Security Building (Miami) South and West Facades, top floors with mansard roof and cupola.

The 14th and 15th floors function as the base for the great mansard roof, which terminates the building. To balance the composition, the two floors are treated as if they were one by the use of a round arch at the 15th floor that is carried by the pilasters of the 14th floor, so that the two floors are visually united.

A bracketed cornice separates the building from the roof form that is so decidedly different from roof treatments in Miami during this period. A mansard roof is a double-pitched roof with a steep upper slope. The mansard roof was named for architect Francois Mansart (1598–1666). Mansart worked in the 17th century and introduced the roof form that extended attic space to provide additional usable area. The mansard roof is a character-defining feature of the Second Empire style that was named after Napoleon III, who took on major building projects in Paris during the 18th century.

The mansard roof of the Security Building is clad in copper and terminates in a series of antefixae. A series of arches containing windows and serving as dormers penetrates the roof. Bull's-eye windows are placed between the arched windows. An eight-sided cupola that extends from the center of the roof is fenestrated on each side with a multi-paned arched window. The dome of the cupola also is clad in copper.

The north and south ends of the building are not ornamented. The windows are a metal casement type. The quoining on the corners of the west elevation is repeated in the north and south elevations of the building. The extension to the east is flat-roofed and is terminated by a defined cornice. The majority of the wall surface contains windows that are either square or rectangular in shape. They contain metal casement windows.

Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Building_(Miami,_Florida)

miami-history.com/security-building-in-downtown-miami/

© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.

Photo taken by Wilhelm Hell, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

1972-12-31 (31 December 1972)

9V-BEH

McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61CF

45902 / 294

Saber Air of Singapore (leased from TIA)

51 years ago today (31 December 2023) - a famous New Year’s Eve visitor to Riem. This was an exceptional fuel stop on the SIN-LGW route (information from Willi Hell). Here, 9V-BEH is lined up for take-off on runway 25 with a Rolls-Royce-engined Lufthansa B707-430 behind (looks like D-ABOB).

Other reports of this airframe at Riem: 26 April 1968 and 17 May 1973 as N8961T with TIA, 24 July 1976 as N8961T with TIA (new colours) and 5, 12 & 17 July 1979 as N810EV with Evergreen International (on Capitol flights).

Information from airliners.net (Ian Gains):

Originally delivered to Trans International Airlines in 1967, this Douglas DC-8-61CF saw service with several other carriers before being sold to Evergreen International Airlines in 1978. Whilst wearing their EV registration, she spent periods of time with other airlines, including ONA from 02/82 - 10/82. She was converted to a -71CF in 1985, & worked as N702UP with UPS until 2010.

Detailed history of this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N8961T/648698

Information from flickr - thanks to Alan Lord:

Saber Air was Singapore's first private airline. It was founded in 1966 with a fleet of C47s, Twin Otters and several light Cessnas and Pipers, operating mostly charter flights for the oil industry in Southeast Asia. In 1969, the Singapore Government took over 80 per cent shares of Saber Air in an attempt to control the civil aviation industry in Singapore. In 1971,Saber started Singapore-London (Gatwick) route with DC8-61 on lease from US-based Overseas National Airways (ONA). However the relationship between ONA and Saber did not last long. The DC8 was returned to ONA and replaced with B707 leased from British Caledonian Airlines.

This airframe as N8961T with TIA at Riem in May 1973:

www.flickr.com/photos/161645265@N08/48542044336

This airframe as C-GNDA with Nordair Canada at YYZ:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/39987761313/

This airframe as N810EV with Evergreen International at DUS:

www.airlines-airliners.de/fotoserien2/evergreen/n810ev.jpg

N810EV with Overseas National Airways at BOS in July 1982:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/8/6/4750683.jpg

N810EV with PIA/faded ONA titles:

douglasdc8.com/photos/DC8515-1G.jpg

This airframe as N702UP with United Parcel Service at SAT in February 2006:

www.jetphotos.com/photo/5682836

N702UP stored at KROW in October 2013:

www.jetphotos.com/photo/8097477

Scan from Kodachrome slide (on Kodak Photo CD).

Photo from the Stephan Barth collection, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

August 1986

G-AVMR "County of Tyne and Wear"

BAC 111-510ED One-Eleven

145

British Airways

Mike Romeo is taxiing out from the stands for take-off - she would have to turn left at this point for runway 25 or right for runway 07.

First flight 28 January 1968. Delivered to BEA in May 1970 and merged into British Airways in April 1974. Transferred to European Aviation June 1993. A sale of G-AVMR to Okada Air of Nigeria was intended, but the deal fell through. So the aircraft was stored at Bristol-Filton, later at Bournemouth, and was not used again for commercial service. It was scrapped in 2001. (Sources: planelogger.com, AirHistory.net)

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-AVMR/814723

There’s a London-Heathrow ATC legend connected with this aircraft:

"Former Heathrow air traffic controller Alan Carter related how he and his colleagues were determined to look after BA’s G-AVMR, a One-Eleven delivered to its predecessor British European Airways in 1970, after they had temporarily ‘mislaid’ the aircraft during a particularly busy period in the Heathrow tower. As a result, they determined – totally unofficially - that this particular One-Eleven would have their undivided attention from then on. ‘How we looked after Mike Romeo,’ Alan said. When ‘A’ Watch was on duty the aircraft never had to wait in a holding pattern when landing at LHR and on one occasion was treated to a stand normally reserved for BA long-haul flights."

Source: www.bac1-11jet.co.uk/bac1-11jet.co.uk%20The%2050th%20Anni...

The Legend of "Mike Romeo" with more details here:

forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=5946

G-AVMR with BEA at MAN in July 1971 (initial colours):

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1441520

G-AVMR with BEA at LHR in 1973:

www.flickr.com/photos/53277566@N06/5768334344

G-AVMR with British Airways at MAN in September 1974 (basic BEA colours):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/1/8/3871813.jpg

G-AVMR with British Airways at LHR in August 1975 (small British Airways titles):

www.flickr.com/photos/52467480@N08/6431865959

G-AVMR with British Airways at JER (Landor livery):

www.flickr.com/photos/merlynpauley/50176778676

G-AVMR in full Okada Air colours at BOH in 1992:

www.flickr.com/photos/baettig/11136524465

G-AVMR with European Aircharter at FZO in September 1993 (basic Okada colours):

www.airhistory.net/photo/334004/G-AVMR

G-AVMR with European Aircharter derelict at BOH in November 2000:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/6/2/9/0191926.jpg

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

City Circle provided several Scania Irizar coaches for today's rail replacement job between Three Bridges and Brighton. K410 I6s YN18 SVL carries CIE Tours livery. Sadly, with the advent of the new PSVAR for rail replacement services, luxury coaches like this will become rarer on such work although the Kings Ferry did have a number of quality coaches on today's job.

18th January 2020.

Photo taken by Andreas Müller, scan kindly provided by Michael Bernhard for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

1991-05-30 (30 May 1991)

TC-AFG "Erenköy"

Boeing 727-231

21988 / 1586

Noble Air

TC-AFG is coming in to land on Riem’s runway 07.

Information from flickr - thanks to Paul:

c/n 21988/1586. New to TWA Trans World Airlines as N84356 in 1980. To Noble Air as TC-AFG in 1990. To Bank Indosuez as F-WKPZ then to Miami Air as N808MA in 1992. Converted to a freighter in 2000. To Cargojet as C-GCJD in 2002.

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/TC-AFG/500993

This airframe as N84356 with TWA at MIA in October 1987:

www.flickr.com/photos/24101413@N03/8565546650

This airframe as N808MA with Miami Air at MIA in March 1993:

www.flickr.com/photos/105925977@N03/26024867838

N808MA with Miami Air at MIA ca. 1998 (Marlins logo on tail):

www.flickr.com/photos/186879457@N07/50583647643

This airframe as C-GCJD with Cargojet at Val-d'Or Airport (YVO/CYVO) in February 2012:

www.flickr.com/photos/jpr89/6786709988

ex C-GCJD derelict at YHM in October 2021:

www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/51603000553

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Photo taken by Robert Samweber, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

München-Riem

1991-05-05 (5 May 1991)

5-8103 / EP-SHC

Boeing 747-131(SF)

20080/80

Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF)

5-8103/EP-SHC at Riem on 5 May 1991. It had arrived on 4 May 1991 and was joined the next day by IRIAF sister ship 5-8115/EP-SHA seen in the background here. Both left the same day (5 May 1991). 5-8103 had visited Riem before with IIAF on 4 September 1978. Thanks to Chris Witt for the details!

Information from flickr - thanks to George Hamlin:

Originally intended for Eastern Airlines, and delivered to TWA on October 22, 1970. It's TWA career was shortened by the 1973-74 fuel crisis and economic downturn; the aircraft was stored in January 1975, and subsequently converted to freighter, and sold to the Imperial Iranian Air Force in May 1975.

Still active in 2020 with IRIAF.

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/EP-NHS/525276

This airframe as N93113 with TWA at LAX in December 1974:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/4/9/2/1143294.jpg

This airframe as 5-282 with IIAF ca. 1975:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/34127177090

This airframe as EP-NHS with IIAF at AMS ca. 1984:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/31365619937

This airframe as EP-NHS with IIAF at AMS ca. 1984 (close-up of tail section with mid-air refueling control window):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/9/2/0413291.jpg

5-8103/EP-SHC with IRIAF/Saha Airlines at Riem on 5 May 1991 (the B747 behind is 5-8115/EP-SHA):

photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Zcwp59w/0/XL/i-Zcwp59w-XL.jpg

5-8103/EP-CQB with IRIAF at THR in March 2018:

www.flickr.com/photos/188664780@N02/49954200663

5/8103/EP-CQB with IRIAF at THR in January 2020:

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/70498_1580062275.jpg

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Photo taken by Manfred Kaffine and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

1972-10-06 (6 October 1972)

LV-JTN

Canadair CL-44D4-6

34

Transporte Aereo Rioplatense (TAR)

LV-JTN is parked in front of Lufthansa’s maintenance hangar at Riem. Sister ship LV-JZM was noted at Riem a week later, on 14 October 1972.

First flight 27 August 1962. Delivered to Slick Airways as N605SA on 17 October 1962. To Airlift International on 1 July 1966. Leased to Trans Mediterranean Airways between November 1967 and November 1969. Sold to Transporte Aereo Rioplatense on 1 March 1971. Crashed after mid air collision with Soviet interceptor, 50 km from Yerevan, USSR, on 18 July 1981.

Detailed history of this airframe:

www.cl44.com/cl44/prodlist/serial34.htm

Wikipedia article on the 1981 mid-air collision:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Armenia_mid-air_collision

This airframe as N605SA with Slick Airways at SFO in November 1965:

www.airhistory.net/photo/400556/N605SA

N605SA with Airlift International at MIA ca. 1966:

photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-f6xqfFj/0/X2/i-f6xqfFj-X2.jpg

N605SA leased to TMA ca. 1969:

geta-o.jp/CIVIL/CANADA/BOMBARDIER/CANADAIR/CL44/N605sa(tl)cl44-0564.jpg

LV-JTN with TAR at MXP in March 1978 (full view):

www.flickr.com/photos/145798423@N07/50804554892

Scan from Kodak medium format (6 x 6 cm) slide (cropped to 3:2 aspect ratio)

Photo taken by Herwart Schneider and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

1972

G-ATZI

Canadair CL-44D4-2

25

British Air Ferries - BAF

Taxiing to runway 07 for take-off.

Detailed history of this airframe:

www.cl44.com/cl44/prodlist/serial25.htm

This airframe as N455T with Flying Tiger Line:

www.flickr.com/photos/xsacman/31164888045/in/photolist-2d...

This airframe as G-ATZI with Transmeridian Air Cargo:

www.dhc-2.com/G-ATZI_CL-44_Ralph_Burnett_EGPK_1280a.jpg

This airframe as HB-IEN with Transvalair:

www.flickr.com/photos/52810288@N05/7489184976/in/photolis...

This airframe as 5A-DHJ with United African Airways:

www.flickr.com/photos/62147181@N02/8583300366/in/photolis...

This airframe as 9Q-CQU with Virunga Air Cargo:

www.flickr.com/photos/chrischenn76/6905070229/in/photolis...

This airframe as N103BB with Blue Bell Aviation/Wrangler:

www.flickr.com/photos/baettig/6989869389/in/photolist-juD...

This airframe as N103BB with TradeWinds:

www.flickr.com/photos/chrischenn76/5698575055/in/photolis...

This airframe as EL-WLL with Trans Lloyd Cargo:

www.flickr.com/photos/propfreak/40439419924/in/photolist-...

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

...except for the free food the queen provided the poorest quarters in the city, she would also once a year gifts of gold and food to the one that was singled out as the poorest citizen within the town and its outskirts...

This recipient would be new every year since they got so much gold that they could support themselves for years...

For singling out of this person the queen had assembled a small board consisting of Her, Prince Albert, the town mage and also every city guilds chairman as well as some official minority groups leaders such as from the middle-esterling refugee population living in the capital...

Every year would start the same, the Wizard would say that he was the poorest citizen, anyhow as he argued, compared to the cost of running experiments that his budget would go on a big negative value every year, after this queen would grant him some gold to keep quiet for the rest of the meeting...

...then Prince Albert would complain about that his consumption of alcohol made him have large tabs on every pub and then stated that if he would pay every tavern what he owed them he would be on a minus so huge that even the states entire annual budget couldn´t stuff his holes in the budget, then the queen would given him a gold coin and he would excuse himself and vanish with the speed of drunk-light!!!

Then the meeting could start for real... this year an old miner living in an abandoned mine close to town was the one the board agreed on was the poorest person and should be granted the award, but the members of the board warned the queen, that he was a nutter, so she would better bring a whole army to keep safe...

The queen settled for three soldiers and Puffy iff her favorite dog...

...later that day a horse-drawn chart loaded with food and gold arrived to the abandoned mine...

the queen jumped off her horse, there was no one to be seen, when she peeked inside the main building, there was just a big abyss of a hole, she called down the hole:

- Is there anyone home, it is you majesty Queen Esmeralda, with a surprise...

then it just echoed for ever and ever, then she heard a faint voice:

- I will just be a jiffy, I am here digging, will be up quite soon...

...after a while a dirty old bearded man climbed the walls of the abyss like a mountain goat... very agile despite his ancient age...

- Hello Madam, I am...

oh what is my name now again?

yes nap, nappy, Napoleon, yes that is my name, Napoleon and some number I can´t remember!

Who are you my fair lady?

- Hi, Napoleon I am Esmeralda also with a number, Actually Esmeralda the first...

- Yes, first, one, one that is my number and one more number that is higher than the first, yes one plus three, I am four, no wait I am 1 and three that is 13, oh wait I am, oh I forgot what my first name was...

- Napoleon, the queen replied!

- Yes that is the guy, Napoleon number 13, who are you?

- I am ruling queen of t his queendom, eh I mean kingdom!

Step outside I have a small surprise for you!

- No you can´t be ruling this kingdom, because I am King, from here to the land of the forestmen, the barbarian, the middle-asterling emirates, I own it all...

- Oh (*giggle*)! You Majesty would you please step outside and look at the surprise I have brought you...

- ok, ok, ah it is daylight my poor eyes... oh I see now, your brought your King and Emperor three men and two horse to help me dig, I am very pleased my loyal subject... You will be rewarded later, or now, I will award the title: Earl of the eastern wall of my hole between 30 feet and 45 feet...

- Eh Well, your Majesty actually my gift isn´t my henchmen or beast of burden but what we have brought you on the chart over there, one chest of gold, a box of food, a chicken and a sack of cereal seeds...

- My subject, are you trying to make mockery out of me? I have gold, I am the richest man in the world, down my hole I have lumps of gold so huge that a dragon couldn´t lift a grain of them... you really disappoint me citizen, I hope the crate with food is fresh earthworms? since that is the only thing I eat, all other food just gives me constipation or was it the other way around, anyhow I eat only fresh squiggly earthworms...

- Eh, Well you majesty, no I have failed you, I have brought you nothing of value and as a self-punishment for the shame I have brought up on my self, will leave you to your work and retreat to my "prison-like" palace and no longer bother you your majesty...

I am so sorry!

- Well Subject citizen, I Napoleon the 14th forgive you, no need for you to punish your self, but, now leave me alone and get your stuff out of my property... Now I have more important things to do than to squabble and gossip with puny subject...

- Yes your majesty...!

the queen slowly backed away while bowing and kneeling respectfully, she picked up Spotty iff and she and her men mounted a rode away to the farm next door and gave the random family the gifts perhaps they were not the poorest but they surely needed the gifts more than Napoleon!

Photo taken by Herwart Schneider and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

D-CMIC (1)

Dornier 228-200

8058

Ratioflug

Note: D-CMIC (2) was Cessna 560XL Citation Excel c/n 560-5021 operated by Atlas Air Service GmbH for Nixdorf between June 1999 and February 2005.

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Michael Röser:

Built 1985 as VH-NSC for National Safety Council of Australia, reregistered VH-NSX 1987. FR Aviation G-SJAD 1988. Ratioflug D-CMIC 1990, reregistered D-IMIK 1995. LGW 1996, Air Traffic Africa 5Y-BYC 2010.

Registration details for this airframe:

rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=8871

This airframe as VH-NSC with National Safety Council of Australia in November 1985:

www.airhistory.net/photo/1456/VH-NSC

www.flickr.com/photos/marktriumphman/50616838462

This airframe as G-SJAD with FR Aviation Ltd/Fisheries Patrol at Fairoaks in 1987:

www.flickr.com/photos/l8rmt/50215292446

This airframe as D-IMIK with Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (LGW) at TXL in April 2008:

www.flickr.com/photos/andymarks/8232463836

This airframe as 5Y-BYC with Air Traffic Africa at NBO in December 2012 and August 2016 (EU flag on tail):

www.flickr.com/photos/lockonaviation/8378720958

www.flickr.com/photos/gulfstream3/29553857746

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Photo taken by Theo Kastner and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

September 1973

N677S

Grumman American G-1159 Gulfstream II

115

Sentry Insurance Company

N677S was noted at Riem on 22 September 1973 (probably the precise date for this shot) and spent the night here (apparently to fly to Berlin the next day, see the first photo link below).

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Kerry Taylor:

Delivered new to the US as N677S in Aug 1972. To N457SW in Nov 1982. To N47JK in Aug 1986. To N200BP in Oct 1987. Upgraded to a Gulfstream II-SP in Jun1993. To N700BH in Aug 1993. To N42PP on 08 May 2001. To N424GC on 24 Apr 2007. WFU at Mojave 16 Jun 2009. Registration cancelled on 02 Jul 2009.Last noted on 23 Feb 2010 and since scrapped.

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N677S/702589

Daylight shot of N677S at THF on 23 September 1973 at THF:

www.planepictures.net/a/68/97/1194170620.jpg

N677S at LTN in April 1977 (revised colours, registration now on tail, Sentry titles removed):

www.flickr.com/photos/pslg05896/34985156661

This airframe as N200BP at LTN ca late 1980s:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/46747133315

This airframe as N424GC at Scottsdale, AZ (SCF/KSDL) in April 2007:

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/1/32919_1177229089.jpg

The remains of N424GC at MHV in October 2011:

www.flickr.com/photos/128485084@N08/51005020075

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Stagecoach South East provided a free shuttle service from Macknade Park & Ride site to Faversham town centre in connection with the Faversham Festival of Transport weekend. On the Saturday two Ashford based Tridents (18174 & 18529) were on the circuits and here we see the latter 18529 GX06 DYT about to depart at 0948 from Court Street, Faversham with the first trip back to the P&R site. Saturday 20th May 2023. DSCN55430.

ADL Trident 10.5m - ADL ALX400.

A formation of Lockheed Martin F-35A "Lightning IIs", from the 388th Fighter Wing and 419th FW, refuel over the Utah Test and Training Range, Utah, as part of a combat power exercise Nov. 19, 2018. The exercise aims to confirm their ability to quickly employ a large force of jets against air and ground targets, and demonstrate the readiness and lethality of the F-35. As the first combat-ready F-35 units in the Air Force, the 388th and 419th FWs at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, are ready to deploy anywhere in the world at a moment's notice.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation, single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF). The result of the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, the aircraft was designed primarily as an air superiority fighter, but also has ground attack, electronic warfare, and signal intelligence capabilities. The prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, built most of the F-22's airframe and weapons systems and conducted final assembly, while Boeing provided the wings, aft fuselage, avionics integration, and training systems.

The aircraft was variously designated F-22 and F/A-22 before it formally entered service in December 2005 as the F-22A. Despite its protracted development and various operational issues, USAF officials consider the F-22 a critical component of the service's tactical air power. Its combination of stealth, aerodynamic performance, and situational awareness enable unprecedented air combat capabilities.

Service officials had originally planned to buy a total of 750 ATFs. In 2009, the program was cut to 187 operational production aircraft due to high costs, a lack of clear air-to-air missions due to delays in Russian and Chinese fighter programs, a ban on exports, and development of the more versatile F-35. The last F-22 was delivered in 2012.

Development

Origins

In 1981, the U.S. Air Force identified a requirement for an Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) to replace the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon. Code named "Senior Sky", this air-superiority fighter program was influenced by emerging worldwide threats, including new developments in Soviet air defense systems and the proliferation of the Su-27 "Flanker"- and MiG-29 "Fulcrum"-class of fighter aircraft. It would take advantage of the new technologies in fighter design on the horizon, including composite materials, lightweight alloys, advanced flight control systems, more powerful propulsion systems, and most importantly, stealth technology. In 1983, the ATF concept development team became the System Program Office (SPO) and managed the program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The demonstration and validation (Dem/Val) request for proposals (RFP) was issued in September 1985, with requirements placing strong emphasis on stealth and supercruise. Of the seven bidding companies, Lockheed and Northrop were selected on 31 October 1986. Lockheed teamed with Boeing and General Dynamics while Northrop teamed with McDonnell Douglas, and the two contractor teams undertook a 50-month Dem/Val phase, culminating in the flight test of two technology demonstrator prototypes, the YF-22 and the YF-23, respectively.

Dem/Val was focused on risk reduction and technology development plans over specific aircraft designs. Contractors made extensive use of analytical and empirical methods, including computational fluid dynamics, wind-tunnel testing, and radar cross-section calculations and pole testing; the Lockheed team would conduct nearly 18,000 hours of wind-tunnel testing. Avionics development was marked by extensive testing and prototyping and supported by ground and flying laboratories. During Dem/Val, the SPO used the results of performance and cost trade studies conducted by contractor teams to adjust ATF requirements and delete ones that were significant weight and cost drivers while having marginal value. The short takeoff and landing (STOL) requirement was relaxed in order to delete thrust-reversers, saving substantial weight. As avionics was a major cost driver, side-looking radars were deleted, and the dedicated infra-red search and track (IRST) system was downgraded from multi-color to single color and then deleted as well. However, space and cooling provisions were retained to allow for future addition of these components. The ejection seat requirement was downgraded from a fresh design to the existing McDonnell Douglas ACES II. Despite efforts by the contractor teams to rein in weight, the takeoff gross weight estimate was increased from 50,000 lb (22,700 kg) to 60,000 lb (27,200 kg), resulting in engine thrust requirement increasing from 30,000 lbf (133 kN) to 35,000 lbf (156 kN) class.

Each team produced two prototype air vehicles for Dem/Val, one for each of the two engine options. The YF-22 had its maiden flight on 29 September 1990 and in flight tests achieved up to Mach 1.58 in supercruise. After the Dem/Val flight test of the prototypes, on 23 April 1991, Secretary of the USAF Donald Rice announced the Lockheed team as the winner of the ATF competition. The YF-23 design was considered stealthier and faster, while the YF-22, with its thrust vectoring nozzles, was more maneuverable as well as less expensive and risky. The aviation press speculated that the Lockheed team's design was also more adaptable to the U.S. Navy's Navalized Advanced Tactical Fighter (NATF), but by 1992, the Navy had abandoned NATF.

Production and procurement

As the program moved to full-scale development, or the Engineering & Manufacturing Development (EMD) stage, the production version had notable differences from the YF-22, despite having a broadly similar shape. The swept-back angle of the leading edge was decreased from 48° to 42°, while the vertical stabilizers were shifted rearward and decreased in area by 20%. To improve pilot visibility, the canopy was moved forward 7 inches (18 cm), and the engine intakes moved rearward 14 inches (36 cm). The shapes of the wing and stabilator trailing edges were refined to improve aerodynamics, strength, and stealth characteristics. Increasing weight during development caused slight reductions in range and maneuver performance.

Prime contractor Lockheed Martin Aeronautics manufactured the majority of the airframe and performed final assembly at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia; program partner Boeing Defense, Space & Security provided additional airframe components as well as avionics integration and training systems. The first F-22, an EMD aircraft with tail number 4001, was unveiled at Marietta, Georgia, on 9 April 1997, and first flew on 7 September 1997. Production, with the first lot awarded in September 2000, supported over 1,000 subcontractors and suppliers from 46 states and up to 95,000 jobs, and spanned 15 years at a peak rate of roughly two airplanes per month. In 2006, the F-22 development team won the Collier Trophy, American aviation's most prestigious award. Due to the aircraft's advanced nature, contractors have been targeted by cyberattacks and technology theft.

The USAF originally envisioned ordering 750 ATFs at a total program cost of $44.3 billion and procurement cost of $26.2 billion in fiscal year (FY) 1985 dollars, with production beginning in 1994. The 1990 Major Aircraft Review led by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney reduced this to 648 aircraft beginning in 1996. By 1997, funding instability had further cut the total to 339, which was again reduced to 277 by 2003. In 2004, the Department of Defense (DoD) further reduced this to 183 operational aircraft, despite the USAF's preference for 381. A multi-year procurement plan was implemented in 2006 to save $15 billion, with total program cost projected to be $62 billion for 183 F-22s distributed to seven combat squadrons. In 2008, Congress passed a defense spending bill that raised the total orders for production aircraft to 187.

The first two F-22s built were EMD aircraft in the Block 1.0 configuration for initial flight testing, while the third was a Block 2.0 aircraft built to represent the internal structure of production airframes and enabled it to test full flight loads. Six more EMD aircraft were built in the Block 10 configuration for development and upgrade testing, with the last two considered essentially production quality jets. Production for operational squadrons consisted of 37 Block 20 training aircraft and 149 Block 30/35 combat aircraft; one of the Block 35 aircraft is dedicated to flight sciences at Edwards Air Force Base.

The numerous new technologies in the F-22 resulted in substantial cost overruns and delays. Many capabilities were deferred to post-service upgrades, reducing the initial cost but increasing total program cost. As production wound down in 2011, the total program cost is estimated to be about $67.3 billion, with $32.4 billion spent on Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) and $34.9 billion on procurement and military construction (MILCON) in then year dollars. The incremental cost for an additional F-22 was estimated at about $138 million in 2009.

Ban on exports

The F-22 cannot be exported under US federal law to protect its stealth technology and other high-tech features. Customers for U.S. fighters are acquiring earlier designs such as the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon or the newer F-35 Lightning II, which contains technology from the F-22 but was designed to be cheaper, more flexible, and available for export. In September 2006, Congress upheld the ban on foreign F-22 sales. Despite the ban, the 2010 defense authorization bill included provisions requiring the DoD to prepare a report on the costs and feasibility for an F-22 export variant, and another report on the effect of F-22 export sales on U.S. aerospace industry.

Some Australian politicians and defense commentators proposed that Australia should attempt to purchase F-22s instead of the planned F-35s, citing the F-22's known capabilities and F-35's delays and developmental uncertainties. However, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) determined that the F-22 was unable to perform the F-35's strike and close air support roles. The Japanese government also showed interest in the F-22 for its Replacement-Fighter program. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) would reportedly require fewer fighters for its mission if it obtained the F-22, thus reducing engineering and staffing costs. However, in 2009 it was reported that acquiring the F-22 would require increases to the Japanese government's defense budget beyond the historical 1 percent of its GDP. With the end of F-22 production, Japan chose the F-35 in December 2011. Israel also expressed interest, but eventually chose the F-35 because of the F-22's price and unavailability.

Production termination

Throughout the 2000s, the need for F-22s was debated, due to rising costs and the lack of relevant adversaries. In 2006, Comptroller General of the United States David Walker found that "the DoD has not demonstrated the need" for more investment in the F-22, and further opposition to the program was expressed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon R. England, Senator John McCain, and Chairman of U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services Senator John Warner. The F-22 program lost influential supporters in 2008 after the forced resignations of Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force General T. Michael Moseley.

In November 2008, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated that the F-22 was not relevant in post-Cold War conflicts such as irregular warfare operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in April 2009, under the new Obama Administration, he called for ending production in FY2011, leaving the USAF with 187 production aircraft. In July, General James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated to the Senate Committee on Armed Services his reasons for supporting termination of F-22 production. They included shifting resources to the multirole F-35 to allow proliferation of fifth-generation fighters for three service branches and preserving the F/A-18 production line to maintain the military's electronic warfare (EW) capabilities in the Boeing EA-18G Growler.[60] Issues with the F-22's reliability and availability also raised concerns. After President Obama threatened to veto further production, the Senate voted in July 2009 in favor of ending production and the House subsequently agreed to abide by the 187 production aircraft cap. Gates stated that the decision was taken in light of the F-35's capabilities, and in 2010, he set the F-22 requirement to 187 aircraft by lowering the number of major regional conflict preparations from two to one.

In 2010, USAF initiated a study to determine the costs of retaining F-22 tooling for a future Service Life Extension Program (SLEP).[66] A RAND Corporation paper from this study estimated that restarting production and building an additional 75 F-22s would cost $17 billion, resulting in $227 million per aircraft, or $54 million higher than the flyaway cost. Lockheed Martin stated that restarting the production line itself would cost about $200 million. Production tooling and associated documentation were subsequently stored at the Sierra Army Depot, allowing the retained tooling to support the fleet life cycle. There were reports that attempts to retrieve this tooling found empty containers, but a subsequent audit found that the tooling was stored as expected.

Russian and Chinese fighter developments have fueled concern, and in 2009, General John Corley, head of Air Combat Command, stated that a fleet of 187 F-22s would be inadequate, but Secretary Gates dismissed General Corley's concern. In 2011, Gates explained that Chinese fifth-generation fighter developments had been accounted for when the number of F-22s was set, and that the U.S. would have a considerable advantage in stealth aircraft in 2025, even with F-35 delays. In December 2011, the 195th and final F-22 was completed out of 8 test EMD and 187 operational aircraft produced; the aircraft was delivered to the USAF on 2 May 2012.

In April 2016, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee proposed legislation that would direct the Air Force to conduct a cost study and assessment associated with resuming production of the F-22. Since the production halt directed in 2009 by then Defense Secretary Gates, lawmakers and the Pentagon noted that air warfare systems of Russia and China were catching up to those of the U.S. Lockheed Martin has proposed upgrading the Block 20 training aircraft into combat-coded Block 30/35 versions as a way to increase numbers available for deployment. On 9 June 2017, the Air Force submitted their report to Congress stating they had no plans to restart the F-22 production line due to economic and operational issues; it estimated it would cost approximately $50 billion to procure 194 additional F-22s at a cost of $206–$216 million per aircraft, including approximately $9.9 billion for non-recurring start-up costs and $40.4 billion for aircraft procurement costs.

Upgrades

The first aircraft with combat-capable Block 3.0 software flew in 2001. Increment 2, the first upgrade program, was implemented in 2005 for Block 20 aircraft onward and enabled the employment of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM). Certification of the improved AN/APG-77(V)1 radar was completed in March 2007, and airframes from production Lot 5 onward are fitted with this radar, which incorporates air-to-ground modes. Increment 3.1 for Block 30 aircraft onward provided improved ground-attack capability through synthetic aperture radar mapping and radio emitter direction finding, electronic attack and Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) integration; testing began in 2009 and the first upgraded aircraft was delivered in 2011. To address oxygen deprivation issues, F-22s were fitted with an automatic backup oxygen system (ABOS) and modified life support system starting in 2012.

Increment 3.2 for Block 35 aircraft is a two-part upgrade process; 3.2A focuses on electronic warfare, communications and identification, while 3.2B includes geolocation improvements and a new stores management system to show the correct symbols for the AIM-9X and AIM-120D.[83][84] To enable two-way communication with other platforms, the F-22 can use the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) as a gateway. The planned Multifunction Advanced Data Link (MADL) integration was cut due to development delays and lack of proliferation among USAF platforms. The F-22 fleet is planned to start receiving Increment 3.2B as well as a software upgrade for cryptography capabilities and avionics stability in May 2019. A Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Joint (MIDS-J) radio that replaces the current Link-16 receive-only box is expected to be operational by 2020. Subsequent upgrades are also focusing on having an open architecture to enable faster future enhancements.

In 2024, funding is projected to begin for the F-22 mid-life upgrade (MLU), which is expected to include new sensors and antennas, hardware refresh, cockpit improvements, and a helmet mounted display and cuing system. Other enhancements being developed include IRST functionality for the AN/AAR-56 Missile Launch Detector (MLD) and more durable stealth coating based on the F-35's.

The F-22 was designed for a service life of 8,000 flight hours, with a $350 million "structures retrofit program". Investigations are being made for upgrades to extend their useful lives further. In the long term, the F-22 is expected to be superseded by a sixth-generation jet fighter to be fielded in the 2030s.

Design

Overview

The F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation fighter that is considered fourth generation in stealth aircraft technology by the USAF.[91] It is the first operational aircraft to combine supercruise, supermaneuverability, stealth, and sensor fusion in a single weapons platform. The F-22 has four empennage surfaces, retractable tricycle landing gear, and clipped delta wings with reverse trailing edge sweep and leading edge extensions running to the upper outboard corner of the inlets. Flight control surfaces include leading-edge flaps, flaperons, ailerons, rudders on the canted vertical stabilizers, and all-moving horizontal tails (stabilators); for speed brake function, the ailerons deflect up, flaperons down, and rudders outwards to increase drag.

The aircraft's dual Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 augmented turbofan engines are closely spaced and incorporate pitch-axis thrust vectoring nozzles with a range of ±20 degrees; each engine has maximum thrust in the 35,000 lbf (156 kN) class. The F-22's thrust-to-weight ratio at typical combat weight is nearly at unity in maximum military power and 1.25 in full afterburner. Maximum speed without external stores is approximately Mach 1.8 at military power and greater than Mach 2 with afterburners.

The F-22's high cruise speed and operating altitude over prior fighters improve the effectiveness of its sensors and weapon systems, and increase survivability against ground defenses such as surface-to-air missiles. The aircraft is among only a few that can supercruise, or sustain supersonic flight without using fuel-inefficient afterburners; it can intercept targets which subsonic aircraft would lack the speed to pursue and an afterburner-dependent aircraft would lack the fuel to reach. The F-22's thrust and aerodynamics enable regular combat speeds of Mach 1.5 at 50,000 feet (15,000 m). The use of internal weapons bays permits the aircraft to maintain comparatively higher performance over most other combat-configured fighters due to a lack of aerodynamic drag from external stores. The aircraft's structure contains a significant amount of high-strength materials to withstand stress and heat of sustained supersonic flight. Respectively, titanium alloys and composites comprise 39% and 24% of the structural weight.

The F-22's aerodynamics, relaxed stability, and powerful thrust-vectoring engines give it excellent maneuverability and energy potential across its flight envelope. The airplane has excellent high alpha (angle of attack) characteristics, capable of flying at trimmed alpha of over 60° while maintaining roll control and performing maneuvers such as the Herbst maneuver (J-turn) and Pugachev's Cobra. The flight control system and full-authority digital engine control (FADEC) make the aircraft highly departure resistant and controllable, thus giving the pilot carefree handling.

Stealth

The F-22 was designed to be highly difficult to detect and track by radar. Measures to reduce radar cross-section (RCS) include airframe shaping such as alignment of edges, fixed-geometry serpentine inlets and curved vanes that prevent line-of-sight of the engine faces and turbines from any exterior view, use of radar-absorbent material (RAM), and attention to detail such as hinges and pilot helmets that could provide a radar return. The F-22 was also designed to have decreased radio emissions, infrared signature and acoustic signature as well as reduced visibility to the naked eye. The aircraft's flat thrust-vectoring nozzles reduce infrared emissions of the exhaust plume to mitigate the threat of infrared homing ("heat seeking") surface-to-air or air-to-air missiles. Additional measures to reduce the infrared signature include special topcoat and active cooling of leading edges to manage the heat buildup from supersonic flight.

Compared to previous stealth designs like the F-117, the F-22 is less reliant on RAM, which are maintenance-intensive and susceptible to adverse weather conditions. Unlike the B-2, which requires climate-controlled hangars, the F-22 can undergo repairs on the flight line or in a normal hangar. The F-22 has a Signature Assessment System which delivers warnings when the radar signature is degraded and necessitates repair. While the F-22's exact RCS is classified, in 2009 Lockheed Martin released information indicating that from certain angles the aircraft has an RCS of 0.0001 m² or −40 dBsm – equivalent to the radar reflection of a "steel marble". Effectively maintaining the stealth features can decrease the F-22's mission capable rate to 62–70%.

The effectiveness of the stealth characteristics is difficult to gauge. The RCS value is a restrictive measurement of the aircraft's frontal or side area from the perspective of a static radar. When an aircraft maneuvers it exposes a completely different set of angles and surface area, potentially increasing radar observability. Furthermore, the F-22's stealth contouring and radar absorbent materials are chiefly effective against high-frequency radars, usually found on other aircraft. The effects of Rayleigh scattering and resonance mean that low-frequency radars such as weather radars and early-warning radars are more likely to detect the F-22 due to its physical size. However, such radars are also conspicuous, susceptible to clutter, and have low precision. Additionally, while faint or fleeting radar contacts make defenders aware that a stealth aircraft is present, reliably vectoring interception to attack the aircraft is much more challenging. According to the USAF an F-22 surprised an Iranian F-4 Phantom II that was attempting to intercept an American UAV, despite Iran's assertion of having military VHF radar coverage over the Persian Gulf.

The mighty Vestrahorn on an exceptionally windy autumn afternoon provided ever changing cloud conditions at it’s peak that made me wish I had set up for a timelapse and had more time here. Before walking out to the flats to photograph some reflections, I spent some time making compositions in the dunes. I took various exposures at different shutter speeds and focus points, and stacked the images in Photoshop to obtain a reasonably sharp image during a very windy day when the grass was blowing at my feet.

www.optimalfocusphotography.com

Photo from the Andreas Rink collection, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

München-Riem

ca. summer 1973

D-BOBA (2)

Yakovlev Yak-40FG

9211420

General Air

Note: D-BOBA (1) was Convair CV-240-4 c/n 145 flying for Flugdienst/Condor Flugdienst from October 1957 to October 1962.

D-BOBA (3) was DHC-8-311 c/n 234 flying for Hamburg Airlines between November 1990 and December 1997.

This airframe had also been noted at Riem on 29 September 1972 wearing its previous registration D-COBA. Using this type, General Air flew scheduled services between Saarbrücken and Munich on behalf of Lufthansa. Note the Monarch Britannia in the background.

This Yak-40FG was delivered to General Air in August 1972 as D-COBA (re-registered D-BOBA in February 1973). Following the airlines insolvency in October 1975, the airframe was ferried back to the USSR and registered as CCCP-48111 in December 1975 (re-registered RA-48111 in August 1993). Seen at Samara-Bezymyanka on 30 August 1997 in Aeroflot c/s, no titles; cancelled before February 2001. (Source: scramble.nl)

Registration details for this airframe:

www.scramble.nl/database/soviet/details/205_78592

Detailed information on the five Yak-40s operated by General Air:

www.ddr-luftfahrt.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2100

Information on General Air (in German) including many photos:

www.airlines-airliners.de/airlines/general_air.htm

This airframe as D-COBA with General Air at Lübeck in July 1972:

www.flickr.com/photos/chaika12/47206307562/in

Scan from slide (unknown brand).

Provided you believe BNSF maintain the footbridge.

The fire station provided a secure reprieve.

I kicked down a metal locker into the stairway,and blocked it off with chairs. Nothing could make it through without a lot of noise and a fair amount of trouble, while i mended myself. a small, almost useless medical kit was all that was left. After cleaning and trying to stop the bleeding, i couldn't find anything worth making stitches with .. so i pinched my skin together, and filled it with super glue.

Once that pleasant process was done,and the stinging was subdued enough i could keep my eyes open .. i searched for something to drink and eat. A lunchbox in the rec room contained several rotten items,but 3 cans of spam, a can of sprite and some Saltine crackers. It was a veritable feast.

Repairing the gas mask seems useless. I taped up the eye hole and made it as tight as possible.. but it limits my vision. And the filter quit working right awhile ago, i just kept it on because it made me feel less .. diseased, i think. Less like I'm dying. The things i try to ignore and not think about at all...

I found some dust masks in a bedroom ... i drew a frowning face on it .. something resembling a sense of humor must still exist in me... at least a spark. I packed up my things and took one last look around before i went out a window and back onto the street. The air everywhere was saturated with that stench. The dead. The rotting. I didn't even have time to try and remove my mask when my stomach decided to eject a mouthful of bile and blood. I coughed and gagged, a panicked chill coming over me. The front door to a Cafe was locked, which could mean a lot of things, but i decided to not break it, and instead find another way in. As i inspected and prodded at the alley entrance, a sound caught my attention... I put my hands out, palms down .. as if instructing the world to be very quiet and listened for more ...

Silence ... then a crack ... it .. it sounded like gunfire. After several minutes it happened again, and this time i was sure. It had to be gunfire. A rifle maybe.

And gunfire meant other survivors.

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Photo taken by Robert Samweber, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

München-Riem

May 1992

SL-ACB

De Havilland Canada DHC-7-102 Dash 7

82

Adria Airways

SL-ACB had visited Riem before as YU-AIF with Inex-Adria Aviopromet/Adria Airways. There's a WDL F-27 close by, and the B727 seen parked in the distance in the "Ostpilz" parking area close to the village of Salmdorf is Baker Corporation’s N311AG.

This airframe started out with Inex Adria Airways (Inex-Adria Aviopromet) in January 1984; it was transferred to Adria Airways in May 1986 and reregistered first SL-ACB in December 1991 and then S5-ACB in March 1993. Registered C-GELY for Voyageur Airlines in January 1999 and N383BC for Bombardier Services Corp. in February 2001. To Asian Spirit as RP-C2915 August 2002 and Zest Airways in September 2008. Withdrawn from use at MNL by November 2009, broken up by March 2017. (Sources: scramble.nl, dash7world)

Detailed history of this airframe including photos:

www.dash7world.com/msn-92

This airframe as YU-AIF with Inex-Adria Aviopromet at Riem in April 1986:

www.flickr.com/photos/161645265@N08/52472250622/in

This airframe as SL-ACB with Adria Airways landing at Riem in May 1992:

www.flickr.com/photos/bwi2muc/4429460813/in

This airframe as S5-ACB with Adria Airways at ZRH in May 1993:

www.flickr.com/photos/antonov22/47638382871

S5-ACB ex-Adria being ferried back to Canada at NCL in June 1998:

www.flickr.com/photos/swbkcb/13864960803

This airframe as RP-C2915 with Asian Spirit at MNL in April 2006:

www.flickr.com/photos/133813370@N04/49515458407

This airframe as RP-C2915 with Zest Air at MNL in March 2012:

www.airhistory.net/photo/2109/RP-C2915

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Provided by Hope International

Photo taken by Wilhelm Hell, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

April 1986

YU-AJT

McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51

47697 / 816

Inex-Adria Airways

YU-AJT is taxiing to runway 25 for take-off, painted in Inex-Adria colours again following lease to SAS, but with the cheatline still incomplete.

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Paul Seymour:

Delivered to Inex-Adria as YU-AJT in 1976 (leased to SAS from October 1984 to April 1985). Sold as N54UA then to Eurofly as I-FLYZ in 1989. Withdrawn from use at Opa Locka, FL in 2000 and scrapped in 2001.

Registration details for this airframe:

www.scramble.nl/database/civil/details/DC9_815

YU-AJT with Inex-Adria at GLA in May 1976:

www.flickr.com/photos/paul-thallon/8489429197

YU-AJT leased to SAS at ARN in 1985 (full colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/145175264@N02/42099597555

YU-AJT with Inex-Adria at GLA in October 1985 (SAS cheatline, starboard side with Inex-Adria Aviopromet titles):

www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkjohn/30030711615

YU-AJT with Adria Airways at DUS in 1986 (starboard side with Adria Aviopromet titles, incomplete cheatline):

www.airhistory.net/photo/529657/YU-AJT

YU-AJT with Adria Airways at DUS in February 1988:

www.flickr.com/photos/190105067@N03/50439917158

YU-AJT with Adria Airways ca. late 1980s (starboard side with Adria Aviopromet titles):

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/33837640658

This airframe as I-FLYZ with Eurofly at CGN in 1990:

www.flickr.com/photos/191692050@N04/51700534848

I-FLYZ derelict at OPF in February 2001:

www.airhistory.net/photo/621429/I-FLYZ

Scan from Kodachrome slide (on Kodak Photo CD).

Daphne Oram provided the prominent electronic sounds for the soundtrack of Doctor No (1962) uncredited.

Daphne Oram (31 December 1925 – 5 January 2003) was a British composer and electronic musician. She was one of the first British composers to produce electronic sound and was a pioneer of musique concrete in the UK

Daphne Oram documentary - Wee Have Also Sound-Houses

straypixel Published on Jan 6, 2012

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNaqvAH7R34

To mark the 50th anniversary in 2008 of the creation of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the programme examines the life and legacy of one of the great pioneers of British electronic music - the Workshop's co-founder Daphne Oram.

Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl, scan kindly provided by Stephan Barth for inclusion on this page.

München-Riem

1978

CS-TBJ

Boeing 707-373C

19179/500

Transportes Aéreos Portugueses (TAP) Cargo

CS-TBJ at the holding point for runway 07. This airframe had been seen at Riem as N372WA with World Airways brand new in 1966 and later on 26 August 1973. CS-TBJ was also reported at Riem on 10 June 1979 and 13 October 1979.

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Stephan Barth:

World Airways was the first operator of this Boeing 707C from 1966; they sold it to TAP from Portugal in 1974, who used it for another 13 years. In 2005, whilst in service with Koda Air as 9L-LDU, it was destroyed by a fire at Istanbul/Sabiha Gökcen; its remains were finally removed in 2019.

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/CS-TBJ/491540

This airframe as N372WA with World Airways at LGW in August 1970:

www.flickr.com/photos/caz_pix/16120551224

CS-TBJ with TAP at ORY in August 1979 (without Cargo titles):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/8/8/8/0575888.jpg

CS-TBJ with TAP Air Portugal Cargo at MXP in June 1985:

www.flickr.com/photos/guidojet/51257506661

This airframe as 9Q-CSB with Sicotra Aviation at ORY in February 1987:

www.flickr.com/photos/propfreak/50579328192

9Q-CSB with Sicotra Aviation at OST in July 1991 (revised colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/128485084@N08/46039840434

9Q-CSB with Skydec Cargo at MUC in June 1993:

www.flickr.com/photos/gooneybird29/39879071973

This airframe as 3D-CSB with Tradewinds Cargo at JNB in 1999:

www.flickr.com/photos/shanair/43432116850

This airframe as 3C-GIG with Koda Air Cargo impounded at SEN in August 2002:

www.airhistory.net/photo/19619/3C-GIG

This airframe as 9L-LDU with at SEN in October 2003:

www.flickr.com/photos/57000246@N05/15064769958

9L-LDU burnt out at Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) in May 2008:

www.flickr.com/photos/hayling_billy/50046401171

The remains of 9L-LDU at SAW in May 2019:

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/79948_1561270850.jpg

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

These buildings are what modern communist provided housing looks like. I didn't get into any of these but my cousin and her husband lived in the modern housing. I was told by my uncle that the main improvement was that each apartment unit featured a bathroom in the new buildings - so things were looking up! And apparently one apartment dweller is rich enough to have one of those Trabant cars at this place too.

Scary is that New World Order, Green New Deal, etc. types of people write about having us all in compact housing like this - yikes. Unfortunate reality left by the communists is that a lot of Germans still live in this type of housing. But the Germans are more fortunate than other East Bloc places, as the rich west systematically completely gutted all of the buildings and remodeled them. And I have been inside my cousin's place since the wall fell. Still fairly small but now completely modern inside. And there is parking for cars outside.

During the visit where the photo was taken, we were not "really" permitted to visit my cousin, so I didn't meet her until the 1990's. We "could" visit her as she was indeed family, but her husband worked for the local military police office, and we were "advised" it would not be good for him or her to be seen near any westerners. Nutz!

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Lubovska

[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517

General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.32940

Call Number: LC-B2- 5532-2

Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Kindly provided from the NK slide collection by Stephan Barth.

München-Riem

July 1972

D-AHLB (1)

Fokker F-28-1000 Fellowship

11031

Aviaction

D-AHLB (2) was Airbus Airbus A300C4-203 c/n 83 flying for Hapag-Lloyd from January 1980 to January 1989.

D-AHLB (3) was the Hapag-Lloyd Airbus A310-304 (c/n 528, delivered January 1990) that crash landed at Vienna on 12 July 2000 because of fuel shortage - no casualties - and was scrapped there in February 2001.

Information from rzjets.net:

First flight 11 March 1971, delivered to Aviaction (full name: Aviaction Hanseatische Luftreederei) on 1 April 1971. Leased to Braathens S.A.F.E. from January 1973 to April 1973 as LN-HLB. Went on to Touraine Air Transport (TAT) as F-BUTE in June 1974, leased to Air France from April 1977. To MMA MacRobertson-Miller Airlines as VH-FKG in April 1981, transferred to Airlines of Western Australia in July 1981, Ansett WA in October 1984. To Horizon Air as N803PH in November 1989. Broken up MZJ 1997. (According to aussieairliners, the aircraft was wfu in November 1997, arrived at MZJ for long-term storage on 30 May 1998 and was scrapped in April 2000.)

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/D-AHLB/698631

Very detailed history of this airframe:

www.aussieairliners.org/f-28/vh-fkg/vhfkg.html

This airframe as F-BUTE with Air France at ORY in June 1977 (additional Air Paris titles):

www.aussieairliners.org/f-28/vh-fkg/1995.084l.jpg

This airframe as F-BUTE with Air France/TAT:

www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/24677619059

This airframe as F-BUTE with Air France/TAT at AMS in June 1980 (later colours):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/8/6/4/1869468.jpg

This airframe as VH-FKG with Airlines of Western Australia at Perth in June 1985:

www.aussieairliners.org/f-28/vh-fkg/1995.069l.jpg

This airframe as VH-FKG with Ansett W.A. at Perth in March 1986:

www.aussieairliners.org/f-28/vh-fkg/1995.276l.jpg

This airframe as N803PH with Horizon Air at Seattle:

www.flickr.com/photos/david_atkinson/5470488194/

This airframe as N803PH with Horizon Air at Seattle (later colours):

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/5/2/9/0213925.jpg

This airframe as N803PH almost gone at MZJ:

www.flickr.com/photos/david_atkinson/5470488202/

Fuselage in the Dross Metals/ARM scrapyard next to Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ in October 2003:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/7/0/5/0795507.jpg

Scan from Kodachrome slide.