Was this DC-3 ever operated by Air New England? No, but PBA operated it as N136PB, known affectionately as "Old 36". ' I worked for ANE back in 1973-74 we handled PBA. I wonder if that one was there at that time... N136PB flew PBA's last flight. IIRC ACK-HYA. After that the fleet was park...
Jump to postordpark wrote:Was this DC-3 ever operated by Air New England?
I just noticed, the clip that ends with the close-up of N404PA uses 2 different planes. The plane landing has exhaust silencers. From what I've been able to find, 404 was built as a B model, no silencers.
Jump to postThe New England Aviation and Spotting Facebook page was showing pictures of a formation flight training seminar at Quonset. A couple of T-6s, an Avenger, a Twin Beech, and something (T-6?) modified to resemble a Zero. Perhaps they made a side trip.
Jump to postCheck out the tail number on the 321. N404PA is still flying for MIT based out of Hanscom, though I've heard she may be near retirement.
Jump to postBack in the 60s Cessna used the advertising slogan "High wing stability, ask any bird."
Jump to postNortheast flew Chicago - Cleveland - Manchester .... also Chicago - Detroit - Burlington as shown on this map from 1969 http://www.departedflights.com/NE060169.html http://www.departedflights.com/NE060169.jpg and later on Los Angeles - Miami One of the Chicago flights ended in Bangor and the other ...
Jump to postAt some point BOS banned Concorde due to noise. In 1988 there was a flight scheduled for a golf tournament near Boston. Because of the ban, they landed at PVD, unloaded some golfers, then headed to JFK. Several officials came in to greet, them and the area around the airport was crowded with spectay...
Jump to postAny American Airlines Prop and the 707s up until they converted them to fanjets and rebranded them as Astrojets. For example the DC-3 Flagship Detroit.
Jump to postThe one at Museum of Flight is 747-121 line #1. In spite of its PanAm customer code, it spent its entire flying career at Boeing.
Jump to postIn the mid 70s I worked for the caterer at PVD, looking at what was going on the field as much as possible. As has been said, all the airline DC-9s, 727s, and BAC-111s had their flaps up by the time they turned off the runway. One day a USAF C-9 came in. He left his flaps and spoilers deployed all t...
Jump to postFrom what I can find out, Avianca got two -159s, both of which wound up at Aloha. Why such a small subflleet, I have no idea, And People Express's first planes were ex-Lufthansa -130s.
Jump to postThere were only 30 737-100s built, the majority of which were -130s for Lufthansa. Aloha flew 200s.
Jump to postThe Boeing customer codes started with 707 orders in the late 50s. The initial model was ther 707-120. The first proposal was to PanAm which wound up as 121. The second proposal was a 122 to United, who went with DC-8s, but the number stayed. And on to 99, then restarted at -101 (Piedmont). When the...
Jump to postThis brings back a vague memory I have. IIRC in the 60s or early 70s there was a captain on, I believe it was Eastern who only had a private pilot's license. He was caught, after passing who knows how many checkridea, by a FAA inspector who actually asked to see his ATP certificate. before a checkri...
Jump to postRobertS975 wrote:For some reason, the Patriots B767 does not ever show up on flightaware.com.
A similar situation led to any aircraft carrying the US president being Air Force 1 (or Marine, Army, or Navy 1). Columbine !!, President Eisenhower's Connie, tail number 48-0610 was operating near DC using call sign Air Force 610 while Eastern 610 was operating in the area. Fortunately, the only pr...
Jump to postAre we just talking nonstops here? TAT began transcontinental Ford Trimotor/train service in 1929. American began Condor sleeper service in 1930.
Jump to postTypical Hollywood depiction of Aviation. At :34 there's a head-on shot of a 737 with CFM-56s.
Jump to postApparently an Aircoupe suffered engine failure flying south along the lake shore near Soldier's Field and was forced to land on southbound Lake Shore Drive and having to fly under a pedestrian bridge to do so. No injuries nor damage to aircraft or cars. http://abc7chicago.com/small-plane-lands-on-l...
Jump to postAA flew PVD-DFW for a short time with a Mad Dog in the late 90s, early 2000s. Apparently it wasn't profitable.
Jump to postNortheast ordered Britannias in the late 50s
and L-1011s in the late 60s.
I believe the CEO of United Continental is Pete Townsend.
Seriously, Northeast was originally a joint venture between Boston and Maine and Central Vermont Railroads.
Two of my favorite liveries wound on some of the same planes
Northeast Yellowbird
Delta Widget
And some of the ex-Yellowbirds wound up with another of my favorites: Piedmont Pacemaker.
tcsundevil, I found it. The original Air Tran, pre-Valuejet operated EI-CJW in the mid-90s.
Jump to postFrom what has been posted earlier, N707JT is grounded, apparently due to corrosion, So passing noise restrictions is probably moot.
Jump to postFrom what has been posted earlier, N707JT is grounded, apparently due to corrosion, So passing noise restrictions is probably moot.
Jump to postBesides the problems of salt water causing corrosion, wouldn't water landing gear make high speed flying problematic? If a flying boat lands on pontoons, wouldn't they cause lots of air resistance. What would be the point of her engines on such an aircraft? A flying boat never lands on pontoons :-)...
Jump to postPVD: The original terminal from the thirties is still used for offices.
PWM: The thirties terminal is still used for general aviation.
B-17s were also built under contract by Douglas and Lockheed's Vega division.
Jump to postDoes it surprise anybody that NE used to play "Yellowbird" during boarding?
Jump to postAs a New Englander, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Northeast. They struggled through most of their existence, but the Yellowbirds were gorgeous!
Jump to postI believe the airstairs were only on the Fairchild F-27s and FH-227s, not the Fokker F.27s. I have also seen 737-200s with airstairs on both the L1 and L2 doors.
Jump to postFlightAware, while usually useful, can have interesting results. For example, according to them, for the last few weeks, ExpressJet 4595 <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">EWR</acronym>-<acronym title="Providence - Theodore Francis Green State (PVD / KPVD)...
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