Originally Posted by
jlemon
Hmmmmmm....an open air theater not too far from BUR.......
The Hollywood Bowl, of course....
Ah, nowhere as grand as the HB (never been there), it was somewhere around Burbank or Victory Bvds. A secondary little theater.
It was years later, on another Burbank runway 15 departure, that I got my first ride in a Convair 580, the one I mentioned months ago at the start of this thread, Sierra Pacific operating for American Eagle. The turboprops put in that aircraft had given it a great amount of power, so I'm sure we were way up high by the time we passed over the same point. Always fun when you're in an aircraft that does a climb like that - a classic was the last Dan-Air Comet 4 flight, the last Comet 4 commercial flight EVER, an enthusiasts round trip charter (well done Dan-Air) that took off from London Gatwick and was said to have got to 2,000 feet by the time it passed the end of the runway !