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Post by gharper on Sept 4, 2009 17:47:45 GMT -5
A few touch and goes around Miami   |
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Post by jesse on Sept 4, 2009 19:42:40 GMT -5
Very nice, Gary. The L-188 brings up a lot of nostalgia; as well as the Eastern.
Jesse
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Post by PeteHam on Sept 4, 2009 23:47:23 GMT -5
Great shots Gary  Love the National colours ..... where can I get a copy please ? Pete. |
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Sept 5, 2009 9:13:28 GMT -5
Yep, the original "Airline of the Stars" livery. Nice. And the Eastern bird is the rare (leased) EAL DC-6B.
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taco
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Post by taco on Sept 5, 2009 19:31:25 GMT -5
Like Jesse the L-188 brings up a lot of nostalgia. One time we spent something like 6 hrs in the L_188 stacked over Pasadena waiting for the fog to lift at LAX, and during this period we needed to land back at BUR to refuel. Along with some other pilots we were all ferrying planes back to LAX, it sure was a bad night for fog, the whole West Coast was fogged in, most inbound flights to LAX had to land at BUR or ONT. The passengers were bused over to LAX. Not like now where you could be stuck on the tarmac for many, many hours. Man, it sure was a good thing our Electra had a coffee maker on it,
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Post by gharper on Sept 5, 2009 19:59:46 GMT -5
Interesting story on a nightmarish situation. Seems like air travel reached a peak and then, since Deregulation, has been going down since. All you do now is rent a seat.
As a pass rider I didn't much care for the Electra initially (loved my DC-7s). Didn't take me too long to realize Eastern's were all first class plus I loved the power and steep climb. During the Navyyears, rode up and down the west coast on Western and PSA's commuters. Finally from Miami to Nassau and back on Eastern.
Gary
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Post by jim67 on Sept 6, 2009 0:51:18 GMT -5
Is this the Team KBT Electra that just came out?
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Post by gharper on Sept 6, 2009 16:44:19 GMT -5
This is the Electra model for FS9/FSX by J. R. Lucariny which has been out for awhile.
Gary
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