Alphafloor From Chile, joined Jun 2004, 1258 posts, RR: 52 Posted (4 years 2 months 3 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 1622 times:
Swiss french television as opened a new website with lots of archives and one of them is about the SR's inaugural flight to Tokyo with the Coronado.
On board, authorization to smoke, champagne in flutes out of glass... Great class !
ZRH From Switzerland, joined Nov 1999, 5003 posts, RR: 41 Reply 1, posted (4 years 2 months 3 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 1591 times:
Thanx. Cool. I remember my first flight when I was a boy. It was with a Swissair Convair 990 Coronado from Zurich to Athens. She stays in my mind as an absolute outstanding aircraft with plenty of room in economy class (as it was in these days, 1972).
Alphafloor From Chile, joined Jun 2004, 1258 posts, RR: 52 Reply 5, posted (4 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 1108 times:
So you guys had the opportunity to fly an Convair 990 !? That's what I call luck ( )
Anyway, I've meet an old SR pilot last year and I asked him if he flew the Coronado to what he replied by "Oh Yes!" with something like "how do you know this aircraft you little boy ?" in his eyes (He didn't knew I was an aviation fan). We chatted for a while and he explained how marvelous the Coronado was, I felt he had great feelings with this special aircraft.
LH459 From United States, joined Aug 2005, 699 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (4 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 1056 times:
Wow! Did I see a martini shaker, or am I dreaming?
SR was a great airline until the mid 90s...I remember flying with them as a boy in the 80s, and having things like pate de foie gras or Buedenerfleisch in economy class! I loved flying transatlantic on their DC-10s...excellent legroom, good food, good service, and a magnificent aircraft (in spite of its reputation, the DC-10 has always been one of my favorites). Now I'm all nostalgic, and I wasn't even alive when this clip was filmed!
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CV990 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (4 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 896 times:
Hi!
Well I was extremely pleased to see that handsome Swissair CV990 flying and the inside filming also amazing!!! Just to inform that the plane was HB-ICA ( look at the shot of the nose and you'll see an "A" there!!!
Here goes a shot of that same airplane!
Oh yes. And Swissair had till the beginning of the 1980ies (don't recall perhaps till 1983 or 1984) only EIGTH seats abreast in their DC 10s in economy class! Afterwards nine like all other airlines but the best solution for it: 2-4-3.
LH459 From United States, joined Aug 2005, 699 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (4 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 866 times:
Quoting ZRH (Reply 11): nine like all other airlines but the best solution for it: 2-4-3.
I remember this arrangement on the MD-11s years later, but I clearly remember 2-5-2 on the DC-10s (after 1984, as you mention). I was stuck in the dreaded middle seat on more than one occasion.
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