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Feb 11 2005

BOAC Junior Jet Club

144boac.jpgAnyone else been a member of the BOAC Junior Jet Club? Or, flew enough miles to get their 25,000 mile certificate? And, did this all before they were one year old? Without ever crying?

Thanks to my father's job as a Geophysicist for Standard Oil/Amoco, my family traveled quite a bit overseas. Starting when I was just eight weeks old, I took to the air: Bangkok to Teheran to London to Johannesburg back to London to Chicago, New York to Manchester to London to Johannesburg for a total of 33,486 miles in just eight months. My mom says I did it all without crying. Here's the log book:

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147boacpin.jpgI have my 25,000 mile certificate somewhere...just not too certain where that is right now.



Posted by Don

24 Comments

  1. #1
    David Huggett said on April 16, 2005:

    You beat me. My first entry was when I was 18 months old. November 1966 London, UK to Detroit, USA on BOAC VC10. Subsequently, the book was full by 1975, so adopted the British Aiways Junior Jet Club book which was full by 1995. I still record every flight. I made up a template on computer and add these to the back of the full BA log book. It's pretty nice looking back.

  2. #2
    Brenda Morris said on May 14, 2005:

    Good effort American cousins.
    First entry in my BOAC Junior Jet Club Log Book is 6 Feb 1959, London to Rome, 960 miles in a Brittania 312!
    25000 certificate awarded 1 Aug 1968.
    Have run out of space. Good idea to replicate blank pages. Any chance of a copy, as an attachment to an e-mail?
    Happy flying, Brenda (Reading, Berkshire UK)

  3. #3
    Don said on May 14, 2005:

    I've scanned a copy of my blank pages and have sent them to you in an email. Enjoy!

  4. #4
    Brad said on June 24, 2005:

    I have two BOAC Junior Jet Club pins that were given to me. I was about to list them on E-bay, but thought I woulf check out some background on them. Do you know anyone that would be intrested in them?

  5. #5
    cathy price said on August 8, 2005:

    I have a 100.000 mile certificate. My Dad was posted to Japan so my sister and I who were at boarding school in England flew out there in the school holidays the long way round ie NOT over the pole. The jounery took about 27 hours with frequent stops. Then later my Dad moved to Singapore which was almost as far. My Mum has my Log book and certificates somewhere (I hope). I was asked to go on local TV when I got the 100 000 miles but I refused as I was too shy and the thought terrified me.
    yours Cathy Price

  6. #6
    Michael said on February 1, 2006:

    Hi, grown up in the sixties B.O.A.C. and BEA have been our favourite airlines. I like to collect some old and rare items from the good old days. So, I am interested in the Junior Jet Club pins. Bytheway, how about a B.O.A.C. pin (speedbird)?
    Thank you for responding.
    Best regards,
    Michael C Douglas

  7. #7
    chris delorey said on May 28, 2006:

    i recently found a junior jet club pin at my wifes grandmothers garage sale, it doesnt say boac, but is identical to that one otherwise

  8. #8
    Pete said on October 25, 2006:

    I thought you might be interested to know that the Captain who signed the book for the flight London to Jo'burgh on the 1/1/66 was Norman Todd. This Captain went on to be head of pilot training in BOAC/ BA on the B747 and Concorde aircraft and infact was the Captain on the BA Concorde's first flight London -Bahrain

  9. #9
    Deborah Miller said on November 20, 2006:

    I have got my junior jet club book and still get it filled in, it always causes a stir and prior to 911 i quite often was allowed into the cockpit, however have come to the end of the book so would love an email with the scanned blank pages before i fly again in march.
    I too did most of my miles when a baby as dad worked in
    Lagos Nigeria and flew home every six months till i was 5

  10. #10
    paddy cox said on November 29, 2006:

    I was boac cabincrew from 1958 for 24 years and filled in many junior jet books. I worked on stratocruisers comets vc10s 707s 747s and concorde

  11. #11
    christine said on January 7, 2007:

    Just found your web site, I to was member of the junior jet club during the late 50s and the 60s, unfortuanelty the book was lost during various house moves. However i flew many times back and forwards from London to Lagos and various other places in between as my Dad worked in Nigeria. We stayed for a year and flew home to the uk for 3 months or stayed in the Canary Isles if it was cold at home!

    I do still have the pin from BOAC.

  12. #12
    Jim said on January 15, 2007:

    anyone any idea where, if possible to get a new book?

  13. #13
    Val said on March 16, 2007:

    I still have my Junior Jet Club Log Book as well,that spans from 1958 to 1972, have not kept it up since then. I have 149,463 miles on mine, but never did get a certificate, still have the badge as well.
    I looked with great interest at yours pages for my fathers signature as he was a pilot for BOAC for 27 years.

  14. #14
    Helen Cotterill said on April 4, 2007:

    Hi, I flew aound the world twice with my parents before I was 5 before we landed in England and my dad sold the first ever dishwasher to the queen ! - my mom said I slept most of the time - I do remember the DC 10's though and I have the junior jet club pin and the book and certificates which I am going to hand down to my eldest son.

  15. #15
    Peter Bee said on April 30, 2007:

    The jet club book reminds me of The flights I took with the BOAC in the early sixties.

    ie. In a comet low over the sahara sand dunes and able to see every detail in the moonlight.

    Thank you B.O.A.C



  16. #16
    P.K. Venkatachalam said on May 28, 2007:

    Hi there,

    I just chanced upon your website. And Boy! I was just transported back to the 60s and 70s. I too was a member of BOAC's Junior Jet Club. My dad worked with BOAC (which later went on to become British Airways) from 1951 to 1981. He was throughout in Bahrain, and myself and my sister, who were then studying in India, would make twice-yearly trips to the island. It was only a short 3 1/2-hour hop but every minute of it enjoyable. Back then we did not have inflight movies (at least not until the mid 70s). But we were kept occupied with crayons and drawing books and at times even taken to the flight deck to say hello to the captain and the other crew members. And what is more, the flights were hardly full. We had the entire aircraft to ourselves.

    As it usually happened, all the unaccompanied kids (mostly children of BOAC staff members joining their parents in Bahrain for holidays) would be chaperoned by a gorgeous looking hostess, made to wear a triangle shaped "Unaccompaneid Passenger" tag. All of us would also be wearing the JJC pin and carrying the JJC log book. Once on board the aircraft (which was usually a VC10 or a 707 back in the 60s and then in the 70s Boeing 747), the hostess would collect our JJC log book to be signed by the captain. The longest distance in my log book is Hong Kong-Bahrain.

    I still have the JJC log book and the pin and I have no intention of parting with either of them.

    I remember the occasion when JJC members were taken aboard the Concorde for a walk-about at Bahrain airport. I think the captain's name was Leo Budd. One side of the aircraft fuselage was painted in the BA livery and the other in Singapore Airlines colours. Simply Unforgettable!

    Since then, over the years, I have flown many airlines, but BOAC, with which I have come to associate my growing-up years, is my all-time favourite.

  17. #17
    Eddie Crunden said on July 9, 2007:

    Hi All,

    Reading all your comments takes me back in time. I was born in Sarawak in 1956 and flew back and forth to boarding school in the UK from 1963 to 1966 and was a member of the BOAC Junior Jet Club. Although I still have my 25,000 mile certificate, unfortunately I have lost my log book and badge.

    I have so many happy memories of flying at that time. We were often escorted around the underside of the aircraft by a member of the crew before a flight and we could go and speak to the captian in the cockpit midflight. The stewardeses were fantastic.

    I have so many memories of this time that I will always treasure. Thanks to all those who looked after us.

    Regards,

    Eddie

  18. #18
    ANDREW said on September 19, 2007:

    Acquired mine flying Comets to Lagos in 1960 aged 4
    when Nigeria was still part of the Empire............
    How ancient & politically incorrect IS THAT!

    First flew by Boeing Stratocruiser.

  19. #19
    guest said on September 25, 2007:

    What immediately comes to my mind is the slogan: "I flew 25.000 miles with BOAC and all I got was this lousy brooch" :D

  20. #20
    Andrew Ward said on October 19, 2007:

    I was a Junior Jet Club member in the 1960s and received my 150000 mile certificate.

    My father, Capt Stan Ward, was a BOAC Captain fron 1946 to 1971 and I am sure, wrote in many of your log books.
    He flew all manner of aircraft including the first scheduled passenger transatlantic jet service from london to New York on a Comet 4, where he met my mother, who was a stewardess.

    I have many fond memories of my flying experiences and was fortunate enough to have been allowed to sit in the "jump seat" in the cockpit, on many flights, including a landing at Kaitak airport in HongKong in 1967.

    I still have my JJC book and certificates but not my badge, which I think I swapped for a pet rabbit age 7!

    These were great years and BOAC was a wonderful experience as a child

  21. #21
    neil hannah said on November 7, 2007:

    What a great site! Like many other posters I was taken back to my own journeys between London and Lagos/Kano in the late fifties.

    I do not remember the aircraft to and from NIgeria, but I definately remember re-fuelling stops in places such as Tripoli, Barcelona and Rome.

    I no longer have my badge, but does anybody remember the Junior flight holdalls? About 12 inches square in light silver/gray vinyl with the BOAC logo in white? I used mine for many years whilst at school in Australia in the early sixties - sadly another casualty of too vigorous spring cleaning long ago.

    If any of this rings any bells - I love to know more. Thanks again.

  22. #22
    maggie snook said on November 11, 2007:

    Travelled as a very young child from 1951 onwards Airwork, vickers viking to khartoum, took two days ,Parents were out there for a few years but we used to come home on leave on the Breamar castle, and Warwick castle from Port Sudan. Then eventually flew in the comet, then vc10. When I was a teenager I met Cats eyes Cunningham who was putting the vc 10 through it's paces in the Sudan.
    Interestingly though during a different spell in Nigeria my parents had, I used to travel school holiday special from uk, by Brittannia to Lagos, stopping i think in Barcelona, and Kano. I do remember during the Congo problems a plane was diverted to rescue missionaries and others, and we as children returned to the Uk from Nigeria with very different frightened l Belgians who also had their little dogs on board with them, escaping the massacres in the Congo.

    We always used to say BOAC, better on a camel!
    How lovely to read everyones wheni stories!

  23. #23
    Don Iliffe said on February 24, 2008:

    I have a BOAC Speedbird pin, that I inherited from my mother, in good condition.

    I don't want to sell it, but have wondered if it is worth much, apart from general interest that is.

  24. #24
    Don said on February 24, 2008:

    I just noticed the comment about the captain flying the first Concorde flight from London to Bahrein.

    I was comanding an RAF Mountain/Desert Rescue Team In the ME at the time and we were put on 30 Minute standby during its flight in case of emergency. Thankfully nothing happened, but it is a curious coincidence.

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