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shivendrashukla · Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:03 pm Post subject: Indian Airlines Archives

Guys,
I found some postcards of Indian Airlines aircrafts. These had been gifted to my brother and I have scanned these and I am posting it here. Original copyrights to respective holders.

IC DC-3 Dakota

Avro HS-748

Airbus A300

DC-4 Skymaster

DH-114 Heron

Boeing 737-200

Cheers
Shivendra Shukla

G-BYGB · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:35 am Post subject:

These are wonderful collections of aircrafts operated by Indian Airlines during that time.Thanks for sharing it.

Don't they have postcard of A320s?

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HAWK21M · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:30 pm Post subject:

Nice Ones.
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HamiltonAir · Member Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 937 Location: Bangalore

Nice collection. Do you have any pics of Caravelle in IC colors?
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AIR INDIA FAN · Member Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 105

wow,excellent collection.

are these official IAC postcards,or postcards,published by other companies?

RKRamesh · Member Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 165

Amazing postcards Shivendra! Thanks- love the clarity and the archived b/w look .

Just thought I'd add anpother 2 old timers from IC to add to the above collection - Found these on Jetphoto:

The Caravelle twin with her unique triangular windows, so chosen to avoid the catastropic hull failure caused by cracks propagating from the square window corners of the Comet used the nose of the Comet in her design. With the tail mounted engines, it was the first jetliner with this sleek uncluttered wing and underbelly. Always found the black nose odd and Panda bear-ish. Also brought IC into the Jet age in 1964 when she was introduced in IC's fleet. Credits on the photo...

An Ex-Indian Airlines Vickers Viscount - one of the world's first turbo prop airliners at Sahar International Mumbai in 1979. Flew in an Air Zimbabwe example in the late 80s and it was a most unique experience. Probably the biggest windows of any aircraft i have sat in. Made the cabin look so bright and airy. She had quaint curtained oval windows making the passing scenery look like an oval framed 3D picture. Wide doors were really welcoming too making one not notice the smallish cabin cross section much.

shivendrashukla · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:21 pm Post subject:

Thanks Guys. These are official collection postcards.

Cheers
Shivendra

HamiltonAir · Member Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 937 Location: Bangalore

Thanx again Shivendra and Ramesh!
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iflytb20 · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:32 pm Post subject:

@RKRamesh

Would you by any chance have a color picture of the IC Caravelle??
I plan to build a model of the same in the near future.

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xterra · Member Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 595 Location: DONT KNO

good stuf ppl.. i bet the pix posted in the first post may not be even there with the the IC or nACIL themselves now..
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RKRamesh · Member Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 165

Dear iflytb20,
while I don't have nor have I been able to locate such a colour picture of the IC Caravelle twin, I do remember seeing it either in a magazine or perhaps in person while landing in Mumbai in the 80s. It was baking in the sun near the Air Works hangars somewhere.

Well the colour pic would not especially give you more details than the b/w pic seen above, except that the tail was the same dull orange colour as the IC A300 tail.

Do let us in on how you are building a model of this aircraft.

As a kid I'd spend many an enjoyable hour crafting various aircraft from pencils and tracing out the wing shape and the number of doors and windows from cardboard and paper based on Jane's aircraft world book that would come out annually. They would have schematics of airliners too which I would draw the wings (as also the tail, horizontal stabilizer and engine pylons) from and cut out. I would then stick those cardboard wings, engine pylons and paper window/door strips and use plasticine/blue tack/modelling clay to fashion the aircraft engines. and the wheel wells Smile

Then I'd spend hours flying these models from the the airport in the hall to the various airports in different rooms in the house Wink

Ha ha what fun that used to be! Especiallyto see them all lined up at the hub airport. I had a 707, A300, 737, VC-10, DC-8, DC-10 and L-1011 in my fleet. Shame I didnt take a snap of these.

All the best with your modelling efforts. Do let us into a pictorial or literal update on your progress as well as the finished product.

Best wishes
Ramesh

iflytb20 · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:21 pm Post subject:

RKRamesh · Member Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 165

Wow! Exciting - Love the details, and looking forward to your pictorial progress report. Will you be creating customised IA graphics to stick on?

himmat01 · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1392 Location: DEL

Here's a link to a picture of the Caravelle in IC's original livery.

http://www.aviation-designs.net/?id=1909
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HamiltonAir · Member Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 937 Location: Bangalore

RKRamesh · Member Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 165

Nice Find indeed Himmat. Thanks.
Took the liberty to post the pic from your link...

The Caravelle twin does look very sleek in this - the tail mounted engine well disguised by the cheat lines.

Talking about cheat lines - wasnt IC's cheat lines on the original livery navy blue - here it looks almost like dark green. The location could pass off for Bangalore of yesteryears.

iflytb20 · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:14 pm Post subject:

Isn't this a photoshopped photo??
That site is famous for its "modified" airliner pics
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HAWK21M · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject:

Amazingly IC still uses the similiar model pallet-dollies even today as in the foreground of that pic Smile

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HamiltonAir · Member Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 937 Location: Bangalore

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Aseem · Member Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 2841 Location: YYZ

Everybody talks about the history of Air India, is there anybody to inform us about Indian Airlines.

VT-ASJ
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