British Airways: 100 Years in the Sky

NUTLEY BOY

Interesting looking documentary series starting on Tuesday night on Channel 5 @21:00.

Link http://www.channel5.com/show/british-airways-100-years-in-the-sky/

Info page says that " The first passengers sat in wicker chairs with no toilets." :eek:

0lddog

For most of my life the Brits had BEA & BOAC.

BA is much younger than EI

Anyone remember commercial flights into Northholt ?

Tenger

NUTLEY BOY wrote: »

Interesting looking documentary series starting on Tuesday night on Channel 5 @21:00.

Link http://www.channel5.com/show/british-airways-100-years-in-the-sky/

Info page says that " The first passengers sat in wicker chairs with no toilets." :eek:

Well I’ve been onboard the Iolar . It dates from 1936, 7-8 chairs made of canvas and metal rod in the cabin. That’s it.

de biz

0lddog wrote: »

For most of my life the Brits had BEA & BOAC.

BA is much younger than EI

Anyone remember commercial flights into Northholt ?

And Blackbushe!

Irish Steve

Channel 5 is not in the sky package. so that's going to stop quite a few watching it, just checked an alternate box, it is available on Free to air satellite.

john boye

Irish Steve wrote: »

Channel 5 is not in the sky package. so that's going to stop quite a few watching it, just checked an alternate box, it is available on Free to air satellite.

It should be in the "Other channels" section and if not it can be added manually in the "Add channels" section.

Irish Steve

john boye wrote: »

It should be in the "Other channels" section and if not it can be added manually in the "Add channels" section.

True, Id forgotten that, as we time shift just about everything these days, it saves a lot of time with being able to skip over endless and in some cases incredibly annoying adverts (Like those inane Haribo sweets ads) the other box will record, which is a better option for a number of reasons.

Comhrá

This worked on my Sky+ box.
On the Sky remote: Press 'Services' > Add channels > Frequency: 10964

Polarisation: Horizontal

Symbol rate (Mbaud): 22.0

FEC: 5/6

john boye

Irish Steve wrote: »

True, Id forgotten that, as we time shift just about everything these days, it saves a lot of time with being able to skip over endless and in some cases incredibly annoying adverts (Like those inane Haribo sweets ads) the other box will record, which is a better option for a number of reasons.

It's gambling adverts which annoy me most these days. More the sheer amount of them rather than any one ad in particular.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Anyone watch this? I missed the first 15 minutes because of Champions League but it was fairly interesting to see the wicker chairs in the first planes. It went up as far as the advent of the 747. Looking forward to the next one featuring Concorde.