SkyStef's aviation page
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SkyStef's aviation page |
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1959 Location: - Photo: collection Skystef Description: an ad published in Sabena's timetable of April 1959 making a proud anouncement of the introduction of the first B707 on its network, the B707 is an artistic impression with fake regi "OO-SAB". |
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1959 Location: - Photo: collection Skystef Description: an ad published in Sabena's timetable of November 1959 making again a proud anouncement of the introduction of the first B707 on its network, once more the picture is an artistic impression. |
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1959 Location: - Photo: collection Skystef Description: scheduled as "JET" from February 15 1960 onwards on the run to New York (Idlewild) as SN547/8, 4x a week with one flight (SN559) Westbound only making a stop at Montreal (Dorval). But at the end, the first revenue flight to Idlewild took place a few weeks earlier, namely on January 23, being the second destination after Leopoldsville (Congo) on January 20. |
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1960 Location: - Photo: Sabena via collection Skystef Description: another ad published in Sabena Revue of 1960 with the original OO-SJA pictured somewhere in The States. |
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1959 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: collection Skystef Description: on this occasion the Belgian Post Office created a special stamp of 6 Frank, dated December 1 1959 when it was issued. The aircraft on the picture is a fake one but the airport in the back comes from a real photograph. |
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1959 Location: RNT/KRNT Photo: collection Skystef Description: just before being delivered, the Sabena 707 is wearing its first color scheme and with the 'small' tail and no ventral fin. |
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ca. 1960 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: collection Radoje Jelic Description: taken on a colorslide from the terras of the North Pier at its home base in the same design. |
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10/03/1973 Location: LBG/LFPB Photo: collection Skystef Description: the tail was enlarged and a ventral fin was added, here seen such. |
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1974 Location: ORY/LFPO Photo: collection Skystef Description: wearing the full old markings of Air Algerie during a 4 month lease from December 1973 onwards. |
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19/10/1974 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: collection Skystef Description: after this lease the second and final Sabena livery was adopted. |
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12/1975 Location: JED/OEJN Photo: collection Radoje Jelic Description: seen with tiny "Mandala Airlines" titles (see also upper left inset) on a lease for the Hadj during a few months between December 1975 - February 1976. |
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28/12/1980 Location: OST/EBOS Photo: collection Skystef Description: seen at Ostend on a diverted flight for Brussels where freezing fog was present. Three months later, on March 29 1981, it was damaged on an emergency landing at Brussels when engine number 3 exploded just after take-off and ultimate it would never fly again. A report (in French) of this incident can be found here. |
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04/1982 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Frans Dechaene Description: 1,5 years later seen stored with some engines removed. |
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04/1982 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Frans Dechaene Description: detail of the nose which, as history would tell, went afterwards to the Brussels museum. |
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07/1982 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Frans Dechaene Description: from June 24 1982 onwards, the break up process began and due to lack of space only the nose section went to the Brussels Air Museum in Brussels by 1983. |