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Yearly Archives: 2016

November 2016 Updates

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EGPB Resident Photographers

Even though the photographers have been out in force as seen in the above photo by John Moncrieff, November has been a quieter month for new additions. VH-MEH appears

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October 2016 Updates

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Photographer: David Westwood

This month has brought a healthy number of additions to the archives, two-thirds of which are from David Westwood with his collection of photos mostly from the early 90’s. The resident plane-spotters

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September 2016 Updates

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G-ASDD - Photo by Norman Leask

September has been a quieter month on the update front (partly due to my laziness). Many thanks to everybody for the photos this month, in particular Norman Leask and

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August 2016 Updates

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August has come and gone and the updates keep rolling in. I have fixed the random photo widget so that it shouldn’t show broken images any more. I also added a few little menu icons to pretty things up a

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Dan-Air

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Dan-Air started off in May 1953 with a single Douglas DC-3 and stuck around until 1992 when they were sold to British Airways for the nominal amount of £1.  The name originates from

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Alidair

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Alidair operated from January 1972 to March 1981 when, after a name change, they became the short-lived Inter City Airlines, lasting only until

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British Air Ferries (BAF)

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British Air Ferries operated between September 1967 and April 1993 before becoming known

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British World Airlines (BWA)

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British World Airlines operated between April 1993 and December 2001.  Prior to 1993 they were known as

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Flightline

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Flightline were based in Southend-on-Sea and operated from 1990 to 2008.  They regularly visited Sumburgh after

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Wideroe

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Wideroe are a Norwegian airline and have a long history dating back to the early 1930’s. In May 1995 Wideroe offered a summer route

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