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 ...

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Nick

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 ...

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.

"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 ...

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!

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Regards

John

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John Nuttall wrote:
"Christopher A. Lee" wrote in message
.. .
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.

--
Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

On 03/04/2009 at 14:17:47 Andrew Robert Breen (%mail)wrote: in
uk.railway

In article ,
John Nuttall wrote:
"Christopher A. Lee" wrote in message
...
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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Richard Hunt wrote:
On 03/04/2009 at 14:17:47 Andrew Robert Breen (%mail)wrote: in
uk.railway

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.

Absolutely. Amazing old beast, the Tante Ju. Remember flying out of
Hamburg and taking off over the top of one which was climbing out (in so
far as a Ju.52 can be said to "climb". Another machine I really want to
fly in.

--
Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

In article ,
(Andrew Robert Breen) wrote:

In article ,
Richard Hunt wrote:
On 03/04/2009 at 14:17:47 Andrew Robert Breen (%mail)wrote: in
uk.railway

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.

Absolutely. Amazing old beast, the Tante Ju. Remember flying out of
Hamburg and taking off over the top of one which was climbing out (in so
far as a Ju.52 can be said to "climb". Another machine I really want to
fly in.

Ah, yes - we've been here before. I'll just say DC3 and
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.railway/msg/9ef12b0bf831da78?hl=en
or et seq.

Sam