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12-16-2007, 10:10 PM
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Nice shots Bill. Good info. Those were the days! Wonder if they served decent food in those days? [/ QUOTE ] Better food than today and with real plates and cutlery. First Class was in the rear of the piston airliners since the engine and propeller noise was louder up front, just the reverse of the jets. 
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12-17-2007, 06:06 AM
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Bill, no restaurant ever advertised "Food just like you'd get on TWA".
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12-17-2007, 08:04 PM
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12-23-2007, 08:02 PM
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01-01-2008, 09:45 PM
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 One of my favorite historical photos. Orville Wright on his final flight in 1944. He died in 1947. He's in the copilot's seat of an Army Air Corps Lockheed C-69 Constellation transport, probably one of the most complex and largest aircraft at that time. Think of it, it had only been just over 40 years since he and Wilbur had first flown at Kitty Hawk and there's Orville Wright thundering along in a giant 4-engined globe-circling transport. Only 25 more years from this photo until Neil Armstrong would be standing on the moon. Wilbur Wright died in 1912 from typhoid fever. Photo of a C-69, c1944: 
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01-06-2008, 12:16 AM
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In 1972 my friend Bill Larkins took this photo of the Douglas DC-7C used in the movie American Graffiti. The airplane was parked at Concord airport (California Bay Area) for the final scenes where Kurt boards the airplane to go off to college.
 Here's what a DC-7C looked like when it was the "hot ship" of the commercial airlines. Pan American's "Clipper Flora Temple" gets waved-off at San Francisco on a beautiful day in 1959.  Before Lear Jets and the subsequent development of corporate aviation there were these: surplus WWII medium bombers that were converted for executive travel. This one's a Martin B-26 Marauder and has been heavily modified and has large three-blade DC-6 props in place of the stock four-blade units. My friend Bill Larkins shot this one at San Francisco in 1956. The Lear Jet didn't fly until 1963-64. 
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