Hawker Siddeley Trident

In the final year of my ATCO training we did a 2 week course on Tridents with BEA at their Viking House training base in Southall. The first half day was spent learning cabin crew emergency drills because we would each be doing a flight deck flight so our 'role' in emergency would be to assist the cabin crew in evacuting the aircraft after landing. We all got a Certificate of Qualification for that.
Most of the time was spent in a simulator but not the full 'all moving' one; this one was to teach us how the systems operated although we did do simulated flights in it flying it both manually and using the Smiths Flight Control system which was quite advanced at that time (1974). You would start takeoff manually, rotate, gear up and set droops and flaps for climb, then engage the autopilot for the rest of the 'flight' until you reached decision height at your destination.

Its forgotten how advanced the Trident was, but it was grossly underpowered. In fact the Trident 3 was the worlds only five engined jet airliner!

When I was at Glasgow, they would attempt to light the booster engine as they passed the tower when departing from 24 (23 nowadays). Often there would be just vapour emitted from the engine, then when it ignited, there would be a huge gout of flame!

Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E (5B-DAB) - 20 October 2014 at Nicosia, Cyprus

I've read about low cost carriers but this is ridiculous.......