Our throw back prop aircraft MIA LAX (DC-3 Flagship Knoxville)
Jan 2, 2019, 2:56 pm
#32
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Nope. AA never had Lockheed Constellations. It may have been a Douglas DC-6B.
My first AA flights were on DC-3s, MEX-MTY-SAT, MEX-MTY-ELP-TUS <overnight> PHX- Los Angeles.
Others prop jobs I flew in included DC-4, -6 and -7, Convair 240 and 440. Lockheed Electra L-188 was prop too, turboprop. Early Electra’s suffered a “whirl mode” where at certain frequencies generated by the engines and wings would cause the wings to break off. Bugger!
My first AA flights were on DC-3s, MEX-MTY-SAT, MEX-MTY-ELP-TUS <overnight> PHX- Los Angeles.
Others prop jobs I flew in included DC-4, -6 and -7, Convair 240 and 440. Lockheed Electra L-188 was prop too, turboprop. Early Electra’s suffered a “whirl mode” where at certain frequencies generated by the engines and wings would cause the wings to break off. Bugger!
Jan 2, 2019, 3:25 pm
#33
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Cool, I was also there when that DC3. was tin MIA on 01-NOV-2018 and wondered why as well.
I saw that the people who boarded were all in suit and tie and ladies were in formal dresses, which doesn’t narrow it down at all as to why it was in MIA that day.
I saw that the people who boarded were all in suit and tie and ladies were in formal dresses, which doesn’t narrow it down at all as to why it was in MIA that day.
Jan 2, 2019, 4:29 pm
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A recording of FDR’s announcement of what? He was dead before the war ended.[/
I had one of these too: December, 1948, on an American DC6, from DCA to LGA. Very cool.
A recording of FDR’s announcement of what? He was dead before the war ended.
I had one of these too: December, 1948, on an American DC6, from DCA to LGA. Very cool.
Feb 4, 2019, 2:24 pm
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Nope. AA never had Lockheed Constellations. It may have been a Douglas DC-6B.
My first AA flights were on DC-3s, MEX-MTY-SAT, MEX-MTY-ELP-TUS <overnight> PHX- Los Angeles.
Others prop jobs I flew in included DC-4, -6 and -7, Convair 240 and 440. Lockheed Electra L-188 was prop too, turboprop. Early Electra’s suffered a “whirl mode” where at certain frequencies generated by the engines and wings would cause the wings to break off. Bugger!
My first AA flights were on DC-3s, MEX-MTY-SAT, MEX-MTY-ELP-TUS <overnight> PHX- Los Angeles.
Others prop jobs I flew in included DC-4, -6 and -7, Convair 240 and 440. Lockheed Electra L-188 was prop too, turboprop. Early Electra’s suffered a “whirl mode” where at certain frequencies generated by the engines and wings would cause the wings to break off. Bugger!
Feb 4, 2019, 4:24 pm
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Thank you JDiver for all you do firstly. Thank you.
History is more recent than we might think (or at 56 I am just older than I realize). My honeymoon in 1984 was transferring from an Eastern 727 at SJU to an Air BVI DC-3 to EIS. There was no rear door; just a cargo net that was fastened over the opening. There was a goat tied to the cargo net being delivered to Tortola. On approach to Tortola, my bride pointed out another DC-3, inverted and submerged at the end of the Tortola runway. Still married. Same wife.
I have been flying commercially from the Eastern Electra days, through the DC-8 to Europe. Oldest AA aircraft were either BAC-111s or 727s (flew on both of them). Remember the F-100 and its brief time? I flew on a VC-10 as a child in the 60s (V, not D). DC-10s on AA with the wooly mammoth seats. Up to the 787 and the 380. Have not been on a 350 yet, although my oldest son came back from Spain on one recently.
As we age, I recall the mantra from my crew team: "the older we get, the better we were."
History is more recent than we might think (or at 56 I am just older than I realize). My honeymoon in 1984 was transferring from an Eastern 727 at SJU to an Air BVI DC-3 to EIS. There was no rear door; just a cargo net that was fastened over the opening. There was a goat tied to the cargo net being delivered to Tortola. On approach to Tortola, my bride pointed out another DC-3, inverted and submerged at the end of the Tortola runway. Still married. Same wife.
I have been flying commercially from the Eastern Electra days, through the DC-8 to Europe. Oldest AA aircraft were either BAC-111s or 727s (flew on both of them). Remember the F-100 and its brief time? I flew on a VC-10 as a child in the 60s (V, not D). DC-10s on AA with the wooly mammoth seats. Up to the 787 and the 380. Have not been on a 350 yet, although my oldest son came back from Spain on one recently.
As we age, I recall the mantra from my crew team: "the older we get, the better we were."