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If you have any requests, you can PM me if you like. I plan to head to the Houston Public Library next week after work. I believe they have OAGs from 1971 onwards (perhaps earlier).

I have a bunch of OAG's from the early and mid-90's back at my parents' home.

Hartmann

Dec 11, 2008 8:06 am

Is $324 for IAH-LAS in Oct. bad?

sdm1130

Dec 11, 2008 8:15 am

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Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 10891729)

Is $324 for IAH-LAS in Oct. bad?

I'd imagine you could eventually find something a little cheaper down the road since your looking about 10 months out.

Hartmann

Dec 11, 2008 8:20 am

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Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 10891784)

I'd imagine you could eventually find something a little cheaper down the road since your looking about 10 months out.

Yeah, there are $256 fares for a different return, so I may wait a few months and see what happens. There is a conference in town that week that I want to go to, so I know prices will jump as time goes on.

Anglo Large Clawed Otter

Dec 11, 2008 8:24 am

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Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 10891717)

I have a bunch of OAG's from the early and mid-90's back at my parents' home.

Pocket OAGs or the big phone-book variety, which also includes International routes?

sfogate

Dec 11, 2008 8:53 am

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Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 10891124)

Yeah, if just walking through counted, I could add the Concorde, DC-3, 707, and Ford Tri-Motor to my list.

I've done the 707 and Continental's DC-3, before it went into the museum.

sdm1130

Dec 11, 2008 8:54 am

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Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 10892016)

I've done the 707 and Continental's DC-3, before it went into the museum.

Does Continental have a museum?

sfogate

Dec 11, 2008 8:57 am

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Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 10892019)

Does Continental have a museum?

We have walking and working dinosaurs but no museum. I believe that plane is in some local Houston museum.

Anglo Large Clawed Otter

Dec 11, 2008 9:08 am

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Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 10892041)

We have walking and working dinosaurs but no museum. I believe that plane is in some local Houston museum.

I hope it wasn't the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston. IIRC, it got trashed by Ike.

AMF in NJ

Dec 11, 2008 9:11 am

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Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 10890865)

I'm fairly confident I'll personally be able to experience hypersonic or suborbital/orbital flights in my lifetime, despite Concorde being retired. Concorde was the first, but I hope she was the first of many (Virgin Galactic, please!). As an Aerogeek, I'm saddened every time I hear another equipment-type has been retired for good, though. I'm even considering traveling to the Azores, just to get a ride on an A310 and a BAe ATP.

I'm fairly skeptical of supersonic flight in the future. Sub-orbitals are a possibility, but it would probably be priced out of my range, unless I find a way to get Virgin points on a $0.25 pack of pudding.

Hartmann

Dec 11, 2008 9:18 am

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Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 10892106)

I hope it wasn't the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston. IIRC, it got trashed by Ike.

All airworthy aircraft were moved. From what I've heard about the others, there may be some that are salvageable.

Olton Hall

Dec 11, 2008 9:21 am

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Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 10891159)

As far as I've ever seen, they're all stored in museums and such.

Here's one of the museum pieces

fozz	Dec 11, 2008 9:26 am

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Originally Posted by rolov (Post 10891653)

I saw a concorde a Heathrow the other day parked next to a BA 747
in their maintenance area .

That one has been there for years. I remember seeing it there in April 07 when I was working outside of Heathrow, so I drove by it each day. I believe BA still uses it on occasion for tests and such.

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