This episode of Grounded takes a look at Brymon Airways, a regional airline which began operations in the South West of England and went on to become form central part of the UK's largest commuter airline. Brymon, founded by a journalist and a racing driver began operations in the early 1970s with island hopping flights to the Scilly Isles would later play a key part in the formation of London City Airport and also played an important role operating North Sea oil support flights using their rugged De Havilland Dash-7 turboprops to the UK's most northerly airport at Unst.
The Brymon Story has lots of twists and turns, skirting bankruptcy in their early years and seeing rescue from an unlikely saviour, a failed merger and successful de-merger, many profitable years under new ownership and finally forming a large part of a commuter network puzzle so grab a brew and sit down and enjoy the Brymon story...
After this episode may I suggest watching my episode on Air SouthWest, the airline which followed in Brymon's footsteps (quite literally) when it began operations one day after Brymon's departure from Plymouth. The Air SouthWest episode is available here: • Grounded: Air Southwest
I mention London City Airways during this episode, Brymon was key in establishing London City Airport but British Midland wanted a slice of the action and formed EuroCity Express, quickly renamed to London City Airways to capitalise on this, even going as far as operating identical routes against Brymon. The London City Airways episode is available here: • Grounded: London City ...
If you like hearing about little regional airlines then I suggest checking out my episode on Gill Airways who were considered "The North East's own airline", that episode is here: • Grounded: Gill Airways
If you are interested in airlines from Bristol then check out Paramount Airways, the UK's first MD-83 operator which folded after the chairman absconded with millions in company funds... The Paramount Episode is available here: • Grounded: Paramount Ai...
** PRODUCTION NOTES **
First off, this is a long one so I apologise if it was too long and/or boring for folks. I had a lot to cover and while I was able to trim it down a bit with some stuff being cut there were other parts which I felt were either too important or interesting to cut.
With regard to the aircraft names, I found out very late on that some aircraft did wear an alternate name on their starboard side (so not just Cornwall/Kernow) such as the "Shetland Islands" aircraft which wore the Gaelic translation on the opposite side.
I tried to keep the route information simple after a certain point, this was simply because Brymon, like a number of other regional carriers would chop and change routes seasonally so after a certain point it becomes very hard to keep track of - and it also inflates the episode runtime needlessly.
** 50th Episode Approaches **
Can you believe that this is the 49th episode of Grounded? I sure can't :) Episode 50 is on the way and looks at another airline close to my heart. I will hopefully be doing a special episode to follow on which offers a behind the scenes look at Grounded and my channel in general as well as some Q & A so if you do have a question or want to know more then head on over to my website and send one in on the contact form, or post down below - all sensible questions will be answered, the not so sensible ones maybe too ;)
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6 авг 2021