The 'A's have it! Arrow Air meets Air Atlantis as Douglas meets Boeing at London Gatwick 😎

Gatwick in the 80s - a view from the Roof Terrace as a fine pair of vintage planes race to the runway at London Gatwick. It looks like the Arrow Air Douglas DC-8-62 N8968U has the edge over Air Atlantis Boeing 707 CS-TBA 😎:)

I can't make out the reg of the Arrow Air but it appears to be in passenger service rather than a freighter. According to my JP Airline Fleets of 1985, I had seen N8968U as passenger configuration DC-8-62. The aircraft was only later converted to a freighter. There's a nose-wheel number - possibly 691? I'm assuming the Air Atlantis to be CS-TBA as CS-TBB apparently only joined the fleet of the TAP subsidiary in October 1986.

I still can't quite believe that both of these once ubiquitous aircraft types have largely been eradicated from the aviation scene!

Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens, using Kodacolor CP100 print film. Scanned from the original negative without restoration.

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Taken in: UK / England / Mole Valley / Gatwick (show map)

Taken on: August 1, 1986

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