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)

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.