Vintage Plane...Vintage Airport

[jordonj]

A B307 starting out at Croydon...



Taxiing out...



And taking off.



Wading through that fog that London is famous for...







And landing...







I don't really know if TWA actually owned the B307 (based on the B29 bomber...).  From what I read, they rejected that one in favor of the Lockheed Constellation.

The plane is a FS2002 plane that works just fine in FS2004, and has a VC (b307.zip).  The Scenery is Vintage London Airports (vla.zip and vlatxfx.zip...you'll need both files).  I found all three at Flightsim.com (dunno if they're here or not).

Thanks for looking

[lemoncat]

nice jordonj definately a vintage feel to it

[RollerBall]

Very nice.

The buildings are still there and I pass them now and again. There's a Heron or a Dove I think it is outside mounted on a large pole. Great that the plane is there but sad in a way because you know that it'll never ever fly again and it's just rotting away.

BTW

The missing pic is the same as the last one

[Souichiro]

Great shot Jordon Lovely scenery and plane choice

[Clipper]

That's a really fine vintage series Jordon. How does that plane handle? I'd think similar to a DC-3. Where's the moon over bourbon street?  :

[RollerBall]

Tell you what as well....I'm trying to place the mountain that's apparently next to the old Croydon airport site that you can see in the take off shot



oh silly me. Must learn to read. It's a landing shot presumably at the destination. Sorry Bill....

[ATI_7500]

A little mistake,Jeff. It was the B377 that was based on the B-29, not the B307.

[jordonj]

Whoops!    What can I say?

Oh well...still a good plane and scenery...

[C]

A little mistake,Jeff. It was the B377 that was based on the B-29, not the B307.

You'll notice the B307 shares a lot with the B-17...

[jordonj]

Yeah...but it was the 377 I was thinking of...that TWA dropped in favor of the Connie...

[Hagar]

BOAC & Pan Am used the B377 or Stratocruiser as it was more commonly known. http://www.flare.net/users/e9ee52a/apaam.htm

The B307 was called the Stratoliner.

Jolly nice shots. BTW