Nostalgia at BHX

[flymetothemoon]

Give this a try - http://bhxovertheyears.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=1980

You can go back and forth through different years.

E.

From those lists i was definately down at the crash gate in Marston Green ( another favourite spotting spot)
on Feb 4TH 1973,aged 15,loved that day,
Steve

 

[wolfheze]

From those lists i was definately down at the crash gate in Marston Green ( another favourite spotting spot)
on Feb 4TH 1973,aged 15,loved that day,
Steve

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From those lists i was definately down at the crash gate in Marston Green ( another favourite spotting spot)
on Feb 4TH 1973,aged 15,loved that day,
Steve

Does that crash gate still exist?

 

[flymetothemoon]

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Does that crash gate still exist?

I'm not sure, I guess it does but the bund would completely obstruct the view I would think

 

[58terminus]

You can go back and forth through different years.

What a great site. I remember seeing a Pan AM 707 at Elmdon and was sure i saw a TWA 707 and Worldways DC8 the next day. The first 2 a least very rare at Elmdon.With the passing of time you start to think maybe it wasn't the next day.Lo and behold it was the 4th and 5th August 1973.Thank you.
Now where did i leave my keys?

 

[wolfheze]

Now where did i leave my keys?[/QUOTE]
About half past 4

 

[rollo]

I've found my keys just got to look for the car now

 

[wolfheze]

What a great site. I remember seeing a Pan AM 707 at Elmdon and was sure i saw a TWA 707 and Worldways DC8 the next day. The first 2 a least very rare at Elmdon.With the passing of time you start to think maybe it wasn't the next day.Lo and behold it was the 4th and 5th August 1973.Thank you.
Now where did i leave my keys?

It is a great site. One thing though, it makes me realise how many things I missed

 

[58terminus]

It is a great site. One thing though, it makes me realise how many things I missed

Have you worked you diversion day yet?I have been getting quite worried for you.

 

[58terminus]

It is a great site. One thing though, it makes me realise how many things I missed

It was the same for everybody.You would spend days there in the holidays.
Unfortunately when you were away on holiday all the rare visitors decided to to come at once and boy didn't
everyone enjoy telling you what you missed.

 

[wolfheze]

It was the same for everybody.You would spend days there in the holidays.
Unfortunately when you were away on holiday all the rare visitors decided to to come at once and boy didn't
everyone enjoy telling you what you missed.

Also bunked off school a few times during the winter .
I think I might have told the story before concerning one of the biggest anti climaxes when my mate passed me in the school corridor and said a Transavia 737 had just flown by on the 33 Approach. The school was heart of england in balsall common just east of the approach where aircraft were at around 1500ft so identification was quite easy. Anyway this was late afternoon and anticipating a good few diversions once home we quickly changed and hopped on the bus.
On arrival sure enough the 737 was there, parked on the apron close to the A45.
Once up in the viewing lounge we turned on our radios and waited, and waited, and waited. Absolutely nothing else of any interest arrived. Just the usual one elevens and viscounts. I think now the transavia was probably operating a one off charter and was clearly staying overnight as the intake covers had already been fitted. Still it was a decent 'cop' to be underlined in the book.
We used to occasionally talk to another couple of lads at the airport where we were quite often ribbed about 'fudging' entries in the book. So if anyone on here used to use that term then you were probably talking to us.

 

[wolfheze]

Have you worked you diversion day yet?I have been getting quite worried for you.

I am standing by my assertion that the diversions arrived on the evening of the 28th of December 1979 due to a heavy snowfall in the south east of England with lighter snow reaching the Midlands. We travelled down to Elmdon on the Saturday morning and spent the day trying to get the reg numbers. Not sure if I will ever be proved right or wrong on this one.

 

[Elmdon80slad]

Also bunked off school a few times during the winter .
I think I might have told the story before concerning one of the biggest anti climaxes when my mate passed me in the school corridor and said a Transavia 737 had just flown by on the 33 Approach. The school was heart of england in balsall common just east of the approach where aircraft were at around 1500ft so identification was quite easy. Anyway this was late afternoon and anticipating a good few diversions once home we quickly changed and hopped on the bus.
On arrival sure enough the 737 was there, parked on the apron close to the A45.
Once up in the viewing lounge we turned on our radios and waited, and waited, and waited. Absolutely nothing else of any interest arrived. Just the usual one elevens and viscounts. I think now the transavia was probably operating a one off charter and was clearly staying overnight as the intake covers had already been fitted. Still it was a decent 'cop' to be underlined in the book.
We used to occasionally talk to another couple of lads at the airport where we were quite often ribbed about 'fudging' entries in the book. So if anyone on here used to use that term then you were probably talking to us.

There was a regular spotter there who was called fudge by the other regulars, I remember a few other names of regulars - Worzel, Tiny etc infact I would have spoken to almost all the regualrs on the spiral stairs from 1978 till the new termianl opened, then it was spotting from the new viewing center there - and of course our mate Mr Myatt who ran the shop in there and was a very kean Blues Fan.

E.

 

[rollo]

Fudge or fudging was a common term in those days.

I had a colour code for my copies of Civil Aircraft Markings, blue for BHX, green for anywhere else and red for "picture cops" double underlined.

I wish I had kept those old books although I do have a wardrobe of old Flight, Air Pictorials etc.

 

[wolfheze]

Just in case anyone was wondering what's under the radome on a one eleven View attachment 5602

 

[wolfheze]

It's a long shot i know but don't suppose anyone has a photograph of the Condor 727 that diverted into Birmingham on the 10th of November 1978? Also an air france caravelle in i think late January 77?

 

[wolfheze]

...K me, I nearly fell off my commode!

 

[rollo]

Me thinks a couple of items are to be added to your collection, don't know how you get away with it.

 

[wolfheze]

Not sure if will for much longer!
Should be another Dan Air 727 arriving soon which I intend to attempt to convert to the last red and black livery as worn by G- BDAN at the time of the Tenerife accident in 1980

 

[58terminus]

When you say a long shot do you mean with a telephoto lens?

Check the dates.If you had an Instamatic you showing off.

 

[Haz66]

Hi All.

First post on the forum.

I was a regular spotter as 14, 15, 16 year old from 1974 onwards.
I remember sitting around waiting for something different from a Viscount or 1-11 to come in.
The anticipation for even a Trident divert, then on a misty day hoping you could catch the reg.
Used to catch RAF Brittannias some days.
In summer spotting by the golf course & I think popping across the Cov road for chips.
I still a lot of the CAM books & go to Brum regularly though these days more for photos.