Re: OT Airline stories


Blinky the Shark wrote:

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!

Hard to imagine...24 hours with those NOISY prop engines...

[cue up the Dimitri Tiomkin score to _The High And The Mighty_...]

In the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in DC (the one on The Mall), there is
a fuselage from an old Eastern DC - 7, you can walk through the passenger
cabin. Pretty small, I got claustrophobia just being in there, can't
imagine being in that tight of a fuselage for *24* hours.


<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.


Is that the last one in the US still flying? I think a group bought it and
restored it. IIRC there is a similar Connie restoration project in
Australia...

Here's my new fave site at which to waste time, scans of airline timetables
from all over, and a number of complete timetables:

http://www.timetableimages.com/index.htm


Here's the Qantas page:

http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/qf.htm


There's a complete 1953 timetable, even with a Connie it took a few days to
reach Europe on the "Kangaroo Route", they had to overnight the passengers
at some stops. It's makes me tired just to read it...!!!


--
Best
Greg





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