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Old May 8, 2014 | 2:55 pm
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Originally Posted by WHBM
Spot on, jl. There weren't many operators of the big Boeing Strat, but Ghana Airways was one of them - albeit run for them by BOAC.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...tart=0&ndsp=15
Just once in my life have I actually seen a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser taking off......but was it really a Stratocruiser? Perhaps it was an ex-USAF C-97G or KC-97G Stratofreighter instead.....

The location was Anchorage International (ANC) back around 1990. A huge cloud of smoke could be seen as the engines were started. This particular aircraft was reportedly being used to fly freshly caught fish into ANC from other locations in Alaska.

I'm inclined to believe that what I actually saw was a former U.S. Air Force Stratofreighter being operated by a commercial air freight outfit as there are a couple of photos on airliners.net taken at ANC of C-97/KC-97 aircraft (N39178 and N972HP) from that time......
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