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[Doctor Gollum]

Ryanair had a little dig at BA about this on Twitter but got their fingers burnt! 

Linky

Quite right too

[Lizzie Zoom]

All this talk about an airliner being flown in the wrong direction reminded me of various WW2 accounts of bombers doing this. During my quick 'research' to find the precise details of these flights I came across this:
https://medium.com/s/story/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb

Quick amazing.  Ok it was in many ways planned because of the risks post Pearl Harbour, but imagine being a passenger finding yourself going on such a fantastic flight instead of the expected 'hop' to where you wanted to get to!

[Kevin Wood]

All this talk about an airliner being flown in the wrong direction reminded me of various WW2 accounts of bombers doing this. During my quick 'research' to find the precise details of these flights I came across this:
https://medium.com/s/story/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb

Quick amazing.  Ok it was in many ways planned because of the risks post Pearl Harbour, but imagine being a passenger finding yourself going on such a fantastic flight instead of the expected 'hop' to where you wanted to get to!

I went to a lecture a couple of weeks back by Roger Beazley who was Head of Experimental Flying at RAE Farnborough. He spoke of a similar trip in the early 90's in the RAE's Comet 4 that started off as a simple flight with some research boffins in the back and ended up mission-creeping into a round the world flight!

That was quite an epic tale and a reminder that, whilst airliners might all look the same, they've come on a bit in capability since thise days, and a flying boat is an order of magnitude more primitive still!