The superb amphibious - ICON A5

Now you have watched the clip and now want one! It's yours for about £85,382.56! Read all about it:

http://www.carbonfibergear.com/icon-a5-carbon-fiber-plane/?sms_ss=blogger&at_xt=4ddd57ad5a071aa5%2C0

http://www.iconaircraft.com/index.html

Paramount Airways & Amber Airways (Amberair)

Paramount Airways (QJ/PAT) two new MD83s started charter services from Bristol Airport to Tenerife and Malaga on May the 1st 1987. In 1988 they added two more new MD83s and two 737-200s from the still newly formed Amber Airways that they had just taken over. Their main departure airports from the UK including their base at Bristol were Birmingham, Belfast, Newcastle, Exeter, East Midlands, & Glasgow.

More expansion came with the formation of Paramount Executive operating a Cessna 550 Citation II based at Birmingham.

In 1989 a new 737-300 was added & one remaining 737-200 still in the fleet was based at Manchester. They also leased a 727-100 from ATA for the summer and this was based at Gatwick. The Airline then started getting into financial difficulties. Paramount limped on for the rest of the summer until they finally ceased trading by October 89.

Fleet details:

McDonnell Douglas MD-83

 G-PATA c/n 49398

 G-PATB c/n 49400

 G-PATC c/n 49962

 G-PATD c/n 49663

Boeing 737-300

G-PATE c/n 24093

Boeing 737-200

G-BKMS c/n 22453

G-BOSA c/n 20808 

Cessna 550 Citation II

G- JFRS c/n 550-0569

Cessna 500 Citation

G-BHTT c/n 500-0404

Monsted-Vincent MV-1 Starflight.

The Monsted-Vincent MV-1 Starflight was built in Louisiana. The sole aircraft built first flew on the 1st of October 1948.  Powered by 4 Continental C-85 engines driving pusher-propellers and it could carry up to 6 passengers. The test results did not encouraged any potential customers and the aircraft was put in the Wedell-Williams Memorial Aviation Museum in the Patterson, Louisiana.

In 1992, the museum was hit by hurricane Andrew and MV-1 was virtually destroyed. The aircraft was relocated to a storage hanger and in 2005 the hanger along with the aircraft was leveled by hurricane Rita.

The museum moved to a new location in Patterson. I guess now the aircraft is still in bits and waiting for the next hurricane. Maybe they should of called it the MV-1 Hurricane?



Photos by: Eberhard Kranz

Hurricane hit number one:

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=501213

Fouga CM.100

The Fouga CM. 100 was based on an assault glider the CM.10 that was designed just after WWII. Two CM.10 were built but no orders came in. The sole CM,100 powered by 2 SNECMA 12S engines first flew on the 19th January 1949. It was later tested with turbojets on the wingtips as the CM.101R. It still atracthed no orders and was scrapped.

CM.100



the same aircraft later called the CM.101R

Specifications CM.100

• Crew: two pilots
• Capacity: 14 passengers
• Length: 17.90 m (58 ft 9 in)
• Wingspan: 26.70 m (87 ft 7 in)
• Wing area: 71.9 m² (774 ft²)
• Empty weight: 4,540 kg (10,010 lb)
• Gross weight: 7,300 kg (16,100 lb)
• Powerplant: 2 × SNECMA 12S-02, 433 kW (580 hp) each
• Cruising speed: 245 km/h (153 mph)
• Range: 500 km (312 miles)

Bristol Lulsgate Airport - Picture Post

I have worked at Bristol Airport now for 23 years. Here is a selection of scanned snaps from the late 80's up to the late 00's. 

Hot Air Viscount



One brit & two two bobs

A busy day years ago







A lovely old Caravelle

Good old Dan-Air

7 twenty 7



IEA ended up being sold to Airtours



Paramount Airways was a Bristol based airline



One of the many operators that did Bristol-Toronto that went bust!




And now a few digital Pictures....

a fence shot!



Photo by Will Duffield

Conti's first flight arrival from NYC

All pics by and from The Aviation Anorak's box under the bed!

http://www.bristolairport.co.uk/

Vickers Windsor

The Vickers Windsor was a high-altitude heavy bomber by designed by Barnes Wallis and R.K. Pierson. It first flew on the 23rd of October 1943. Only 3 were built. In the end it was killed off by updated versions of the Lancaster that could do the same job.

Photograph from Military Aircraft Photographs (MAP)

More info about this rare aircraft: http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/vickers_windsor.php

post updated 10/01/2014