Strange picture in The Examiner yesterday

glanman · 30-12-2010 11:14am #1

Anyone see the picture on the Examiner yesterday in the business section about the ash cloud and how it affected airports and airlines? They had a photo of Shannon airport to accompany the story and included in the photo was a Pan Am plane! Lazy journalism or what to use a picture probably 20 years or older!

drdeadlift · 30-12-2010 11:42am

do you have a link? wouldn't mind seeing the pic

glanman · 30-12-2010 11:59am

I dont but will copy the image later...

drdeadlift · 30-12-2010 12:10pm

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Pan-American-World/Boeing-747-121/1505063/&sid=af2e9b1f887c759216f21838e9fdc2a1

biblio · 30-12-2010 10:57pm

Yeah, i saw that picture too there was an aer lingus 747, a 737, two Tristars , Delta and American trans air and a DC-10.
An interesting photo but ancient the examiner are gone very careless lately with the photos they use with their articles. There was supplement recently about careers in the IT industry the accompanying photos showed "graduates" with mullets and shoulder pads busy working at their IBM PS/2's

Bluetonic · 31-12-2010 10:25am

Perhaps they are using old photos out of copyright which will save them considerable sums of money given the number of copies they sell.

One way or the other it's hardly a big deal.

glanman · 03-01-2011 4:27pm

sorry, finally have been able to upload this!! if someone wants to tell me how to make it smaller that would be cool or if a mod wants to!

CabanasBoy · 04-01-2011 8:14pm

UTV did an article recently about the current political situation in the republic and used archive footage of O'Connell st (Dublin) with orange buses running! (they started to phase out the orange bus in favour of the green Bombardier (tenuous aviation link!) bus in the early 80's)
So not just The Examiner being lazy.

Plowman · 04-01-2011 8:51pm

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Run_to_da_hills · 04-01-2011 11:58pm

This one appeared in the Daily Mirror a few months ago.

Lapin · 05-01-2011 12:09am

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Ah the memories.......

The good old days at Shannon.

glanman · 05-01-2011 8:54am

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Thanks thats much better... My flickr wouldn't work when I was trying to post so thanks for the help!

stoneill · 05-01-2011 9:02am

Aer Lingus old livery, and a few old McDonnell Douglas Tri-Stars.
The aircraft on the extreme left - is that old BA?

lord lucan · 05-01-2011 11:07am

stoneill wrote: »

The aircraft on the extreme left - is that old BA?

Looks like Delta to me.

globemaster1986 · 05-01-2011 1:16pm

stoneill wrote: »

Aer Lingus old livery, and a few old McDonnell Douglas Tri-Stars.
The aircraft on the extreme left - is that old BA?

Hate to be pedantic here

but the TriStar was made by Lockheed. There are two Delta TriStars, one at either end of the row of widebodies and the tri holer with the red tail is a McDonnell Douglas DC-10:p

IrishB.ie · 05-01-2011 1:31pm

globemaster1986 wrote: »

Hate to be pedantic here but the TriStar was made by Lockheed. There are two Delta TriStars, one at either end of the row of widebodies and the tri holer with the red tail is a McDonnell Douglas DC-10:p

Ah c'mon, if your going to be pedantic, at least get it right

. The Tristar on the left of the picture is a Delta Air Lines one all right but the one on the right is an American Trans Air :eek:.

Davidth88 · 05-01-2011 3:47pm

Whose is the DC10 ? Not a livery I recognise

I concur that is an ATA L1011 on the right , god I had a horrible flight on one of those to Florida one time , a right wreck of an aeroplane

IrishB.ie · 05-01-2011 5:33pm

Davidth88 wrote: »

Whose is the DC10 ? Not a livery I recognise

I concur that is an ATA L1011 on the right , god I had a horrible flight on one of those to Florida one time , a right wreck of an aeroplane

The DC10, has the Swissair livery but without the white cross on the tail. Maybe it was on lease or just been sold.

Davidth88 · 05-01-2011 10:11pm

No the SwissAir red was much REDDER .......

I suppose it could be lost in print

Delancey · 05-01-2011 10:31pm

All the same , Irish airports were once a hell of a lot more interesting than they are now - nice to be reminded how it was....:rolleyes:

As for the DC-10 in the photo I think it's from Northwest Orient - anyone know did they use DC-10's ?

EchoIndia · 05-01-2011 10:42pm

delancey42 wrote: »

As for the DC-10 in the photo I think it's from Northwest Orient - anyone know did they use DC-10's ?

Only for about 35 years (retired in 2007). How hard would it have been for you to Google that information...?

Delancey · 05-01-2011 11:58pm

EchoIndia wrote: »

Only for about 35 years (retired in 2007). How hard would it have been for you to Google that information...?

I thought Northwest Orient went tits up years ago thus there may not be a huge amount of information about them on the web. Obviously I was wrong.
Thanks for the reply

Davidth88 · 06-01-2011 7:50am

delancey42 wrote: »

As for the DC-10 in the photo I think it's from Northwest Orient - anyone know did they use DC-10's ?

THATS IT , of course North West Orient !......... remember them in Gatwick

Thanks

Not · 10-01-2011 1:56pm

Now for the real challenge

What would the type and carrier/operator of the white one with the black stripe and blue tail parked away from the boarding gates ?

I've tryed searching to put a name to the livery but I've come up with a blank.

Plowman · 10-01-2011 3:09pm

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Davidth88 · 10-01-2011 3:16pm

El Al 707 maybe ?

highlydebased · 10-01-2011 5:01pm

Not wrote: »

Now for the real challenge What would the type and carrier/operator of the white one with the black stripe and blue tail parked away from the boarding gates ?

I've tryed searching to put a name to the livery but I've come up with a blank.

Its either KLM old....

or BOAC...see the 707 on the far left here

EchoIndia · 10-01-2011 6:59pm

While the photo is indistinct, I think it's most likely an ATI DC-8-62, as seen here:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-Transport-International/McDonnell-Douglas-DC-8-62(F)/0348315/L/

The other types and operators cited were not still around in the time period in which the Examiner photo was taken.

Not · 10-01-2011 8:26pm

My best guess

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Ports-of-Call/Convair-990A-(30A-5)/0175835/&sid=3decffba0ac6d167a4dd77af7a4b50d4

Apparently they flew through Shannon in the early 80's, using Boeing 707's. However, their earlier Convair 990's had a livery very like the one in the picture.

Delancey · 10-01-2011 8:35pm

Given the poor quality of the image it will be almost impossible to say for sure , that said by the time the Aer Lingus livery we see in the photo was in use BOAC had become BA and I think KLM had changed from the old livery seen in the photo above ?

EchoIndia · 10-01-2011 9:31pm

The parking stand that the unidentified aircraft is on was normally used for cargo aircraft, if I recall correctly.

highlydebased · 10-01-2011 11:24pm

EchoIndia wrote: »

While the photo is indistinct, I think it's most likely an ATI DC-8-62, as seen here:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-Transport-International/McDonnell-Douglas-DC-8-62(F)/0348315/L/

The other types and operators cited were not still around in the time period in which the Examiner photo was taken.

Spot on.

Not · 11-01-2011 9:34am

EchoIndia wrote: »

While the photo is indistinct, I think it's most likely an ATI DC-8-62, as seen here:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-Transport-International/McDonnell-Douglas-DC-8-62(F)/0348315/L/

The other types and operators cited were not still around in the time period in which the Examiner photo was taken.

I think you're probably right. If that's a freight stand it must be a freighter. I wasn't convinced by the logo on the tail which in the photograph looks more slanted, but the blurring and grain likely accounts for it. Well spotted !

Strange picture in The Examiner yesterday

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