A port side view of a Boeing 707-436 civilian aircraft owned by the British Overseas Airways Corporation, ready for boarding at Roma Airport in Rome, Italy.

A port side view of a Boeing 707-436 civilian aircraft owned by the British Overseas Airways Corporation, ready for boarding at Roma Airport in Rome, Italy. The photographer is standing in a passenger lounge of the airport looking at the port side of the aircraft. A luggage conveyor, a stationary luggage tractor with a BOAC carriage and a vacant airstair are in the foreground. A pilot is standing near the attached airstair of the Boeing 707. Two crewmen are standing on the airstair and just inside the forward passenger door of the aircraft.

This is Slide 10 of a series of slides detailing Captain H. Bird's service as Second Officer on board the motor tanker Halcyon Days (1958), owned by Court Line Limited, from 5 October 1969 to 16 February 1970. This series contains 10 slides.

Object Details

ID: PCT16259
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bird, Henry P.
Date made: February 1970
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection
Measurements: Image: 24 mm x 35 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm