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Richard Hunt · April 4th 09, 04:10 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On 03/04/2009 at 14:17:47 Andrew Robert Breen (%mail)wrote: in
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John Nuttall wrote:
"Christopher A. Lee" wrote in message
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On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:17:19 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Apr 2, 9:15 pm, Jeremy Double wrote:

A European Safety directive I believe, which required the
fitting of safety slides (even though the passenger door is only
4ft above the ground) and oxygen masks (even though it is an
unpressurised airliner and never flies high enough to require
oxygen)!

Yet the Air Atlantique Dragon Rapide continues ...

Under the threshold for no. of seats (12, I think, is where the new
regs kick in).

I always had a soft spot for these. I never flew in one but they
were old even when I was a small boy. I saw them at both Heathrow
and St. Just on the hols in Corwall.

I flew in the Air Atlantique one in 1996. Front seat (slightly
further back than the pilot, 1000 ft above the Warwickshire
countryside with the window open. Marvellous!

Beautiful, beautiful aeroplanes. Must get a flight in one soon.

And they're on topic for UK.R: Railway Air Services operated Dragons
and Rapides in the 30s.

In that case, so is the Ju 52/3M as Railway Air Services' successor,
BEA, ussed them immediately post-1945.

Richard Hunt

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