An attempted night shot of I-DEMB - a visiting Alitalia Boeing 747-243B seen at London Heathrow

The view from Car Park 2
A lot of the European airlines used wide bodied jets on their peak-time flights into Heathrow. Here is the only night shot I have of an Alitalia 747 at LHR. The Alitalia 747s were not seen as much as those of KLM or Air France which were more regular visitors at the time. Photo taken from the top of Car Park 2, which had become my regular haunt instead of the Queen's Building at Heathrow by that time. A Lufthansa A300B4 Airbus can be seen behind.

I-DEMB 'Carlo Del Prete' c/n 20520 Boeing 747-243B - delivered new to Alitalia in May 1972, the aircraft flew with the airline for just eight years before being sold back to Boeing. The aircraft became N359AS and flew with Cargolux, Kabo Air, and Overseas National Airlines before being sold again to PEOPLExpress as N605PE. In 1987, the airline merged with Continental Air Lines. The aircraft was re-registered N33021 in 1992 and flew for another six years, before finally being retired and dispatched to the Mojave desert. By 2002, the aircraft had been broken up.

Taken with a Soviet made Zenith E camera and 300mm lens. From an original slide, scanned and unrestored. I was using East European ORWO film which I experimented with for a short time in 1978-79. The film was really grainy.

Slides that were nearly lost to oblivion No.70 The original slide / transparency was rescued from a box of 'dud' slides that I could never quite bring myself to throw away - now I am glad that I kept them ;) From an original slide, scanned and unrestored.

You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/

Taken in: UK / England / Hillingdon / Heathrow (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1979

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