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Mainliner Stewardesses

One of the unique aspects of collecting snapshots is the almost innocent, unpretentious glimpses it gives us into the daily lives of the people who took them. With the explosion in air travel during the 1930s and 1940s, not only did the nation and world be ...

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1954 ... 'Warning- Star'

. before modern, long-range radar, aircraft with large radomes flew constant patrols watching for Soviet bombers. This augmented what ground based radar there was. It was not until the early 1960's and the completion of the DEW Line that North American rad ...

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1.8. Development after 1940

The beginning of the Second World War ended the pioneering era of aviation, with the main ingredients at hand for the stormy developments that would follow. Especially, the introduction of the gas turbine based jet engine led to an important evolution from ...

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Photos: How to get a Boeing 737-400 in a hangar that is too small

Click to see larger. Photo by Ken Fielding. AirlineReporter.com reader and airline enthusiast Ken Fielding , who has already brought us great photos of a Boeing 767 with its door open and a Lockheed Constellation that tipped over , now shares a story and a ...

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The Story of the Ace Freighters Lockheed Constellation That Tipped

On July 2, 1966 this Lockheed Constellation (G-ALAL) had some weight issues. Click for larger. Photo by Ken Fielding. Aviation enthusist Ken Fielding shared his photos with me about a Contellation in 1966 that had some weight issues and he was lucky enough ...

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Posted: 3 months ago

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First regular Trans- Atlantic flights

After world war II, AOA, American Overseas Airlines, was the first airline to begin regular land plane flights across the Atlantic, on October 24, 1945. In January 1946 Pan Am scheduled seven DC-4s a week east from La Guardia Airport, five to London (Hurn) ...

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Posted: 3 months ago

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Lockheed C-69 Constellation 43-10315 (c/n 1967)

Batman60 posted a photo Doctored image, but supposedly 43-10315. The seventh Constellation built, delivered as C-69 43-10315 to the USAAF in February 1945. Converted to L-049 and later L-049D. Owned by El Al from March 1951 until sale as G-ARVP in February ...

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Posted: 4 months ago

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SION, Switzerland – Air Show 16SEP11

Lockheed L.1049 Super Constellation HB-RSC 'Star of Switzerland' in the static display at Sion before being pulled onto the active runway for the last flight of the day. LOCATION Sion (Sitten in German is the capital of the Swiss canton of Valais (Wallis) ...

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Posted: 4 months ago

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Lockheed L-1049E Super Constellation N1005C (cn 4557)

Batman60 posted a photo Leased by Aerlinte Eireann, seen here at Heathrow, Sept 2, 1958. Ex Cubana CU-P573. After a long and complicated history it is now being restored as a C-121 at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB in Delaware. I used to driv ...

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Posted: 4 months ago

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Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Air France 1

keyboard shortcuts previous photo next photo L view in light box F favorite scroll film strip left scroll film strip right ? show all shortcuts Grab the link Grab the HTML BBCode Copy and paste the code below a href="http www.flickr.com photos 27862259N02 ...

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