Re: OT Airline stories

Gregory Morrow wrote:


Blinky the Shark wrote:

Dimitri wrote:

As you might have imagined over my, well many years, I have flown quite
a
bit. I started flying at the ripe age of 7 about 1950 in the TWA
Constellation.

The Lockheed Consetllation remains the most beautiful airliner ever.



Yep, it was...I have a model of one sitting right on my desk here, it's in a
beautiful Qantas livery. It just has a perfect "line" to it, looks good
from any angle...

[I collect model airliners, amongst my other fascinating hobbies ;-) ]

IIRC the Connie still holds the record for longest non - stop scheduled
flight ever. TWA flew an advanced version fitted with extra fuel tanks on
their trans - polar LAX - LHR (London Heathrow) route, it was slightly over
*24* hours in the air...all first class layout, natch, with sleeper seats.

Wow!

<snip>

[OTOH think what a great thing the first jets were for a place like
Australia, it put them a whole day or so closer to the world...]

True.

Valley Trivia: We have a flying Constellation based at Van Nuys, the burb
just to the west of me here.


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