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I think it would be nice to see this again.. (but I`m just an old and sentimental planespotter...)



diddi

Maybe Word Airways operated these flights as regular charters. That would explain the originally "high density" seating arrangement of 461(!!) seats. And they operated 747C at that time. I had a look at my BRU reg-books of 1974 but found only WO 747 visiting BRU once. But I went to BRU only rarely ...

I say thanks to the boys of Rampcontrol, who made this picture possible for those crazy guys from Aachen..then...

To reach the parking lot at the railway station follow the signs: "Lichtenbroich" and then "Fernbahnhof". Admission to the viewing pier is
2,50 and this ticket is also good for using the skytrain. The railway terrass is of limited use when 07 is in use. have a nice trip and enjoy!
Diddi

Just for fun: overheard in the travel agency`s office some 43 years ago: "Why should I give this Air India timetable to you, young man? You`ll throw it away anyway!!" AI to BRU once weekly at least from the mid-Sixties, and the timetable is still in my book-shelf after all these years:

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Austrian to JFK

Here the AF timetable eff. July,1967. Strangely, there are no AF flights between BRU and ORY listed.


Greetings to BRU,

Diddi

You are obviously referring to AN124 aircraft, but there`s only one AN225 as you most probably know!

Flight was canceled, so we`ll never find out if the beast would have survived the visit to KBL

Oh, yes indeed, it is an A300B1! And the AH Caravelle was taken from the (then) open terrasse on top of the northern pier, looking
into the direction where they later built the TEAMCO hangar (I won`t mention the present inhabitant..). The Air Congo DC-8-63 was taken from the same place but a looking ...

Some more results of our frequent visits to BRU:

In the Seventies I was the proud owner of a TTL Icarex camera, a 50mm lens and a 135mm lens as well.
That was all I had got causing some photographic limitations, either the plane was too small or too large suddenly.
Furthermore, I first used an Agfa ...

Let`s have a look at BRU when there still was a company called SABENA.

Here is an excerpt from the Winter-timetable 1975/76:

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OO-SGA in original colours

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Followed by OO-SJG

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It says "share your pictures" in the heading: well. I´ll do so!
I always look back to BRU with some kind of pleasure. Nearly each visit in the Seventies was "spiced"
with some nice stories to tell, be it going to the loo with a sub-machinegun in our back after being
"rounded-up" again by the police ...

Obviously, the French authorities didn`t notice that the cold war is over for quite a long time..
They should give access to this beautiful piece of French aviation history. What an amount of work
has been done already by these fellows, I´m amazed (but probably these military people don`t care ...

Don`t forget the Austrian 707 OE-LBA VIE-BRU-JFK in the very early Seventies!
diddi