JetPhoto Pre-Screening Thread...

[elaw]

Didn't some planes (the longer-range ones, I'd think) back in those days also have radio operators?

[elaw]

Supposed Logan ~1972

I thought that's what it looked like!

[J]

Here is a pretty good book i picked up a number of years ago.

Written in 1962 it discusses all aspects of a TWA 707 flight including preparing the plane and the background of the 5 crew members. The pilot met Charles Lingberg and First Officer flew bombers in WWII. The navigator (shown in the book using the sextant) began his career as a sailing cadet.

https://www.amazon.com/-/he/Leonard-Ste ... B0007EADKQ

[Gabriel]

Didn't some planes (the longer-range ones, I'd think) back in those days also have radio operators?

The famous Tupolev Tu-154 presidential Polish Air Force Flight 101 that crashed (sorry, was shot down with mind-controlling rays) at Smolensk had a captain, a first officer, a flight engineer, a navigator and a radio operator, and some other non-flight officer interfering with the operations.

Right Snappy?

[elaw]

If someone there had his way, they'd also (to this day) have a regulatory compliance officer in the front office.

[Gabriel]

If someone there had his way, they'd also (to this day) have a regulatory compliance officer in the front office.

And a Communist Party political officer.

[Mr. Snappy]

Is American propaganda

Tu-154 crash is deep fake

[Not_Karl]

I watched Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was super NOT_good. BUT I cropped this scene for out enjoyment and our Nair moments.


(Note: the LearJetie/balloonie crash at the start is Not_a TOTAL AIR DISASTER!!!!: our heroes, Not_Peter Frampton and the Not_Bee Gees are magically transported from the balloonie to the aeroplanie. Then, surely by the same act of magic, the Learjet transforms itself to an HS.125? flying much higher, then back to a Learjet ).

The Lear, a 1968 model, was de-registered in 2016 . It has appeared in other films/series (there are also captures on them interwebz of it appearing in Knight Rider).
The B747, L-1011 and ¿HS.125? registrations are Not_visible .

[elaw]

With the amount of LSD people were doing back then, abrupt craft, altitude, and model changes were to be expected.

[3WE]

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

It can not_be the worst movie ever given that it has aeroplanies in it…classic ones at that, AND Flyover airlines aeroplanies.

I also see genius taxiing.

Slightly related Blubie link: https://youtu.be/5EOFnnBQjp8?si=NLBNdT2l0-HTjCo6

[Gabriel]

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

It can not_be the worst movie ever given that it has aeroplanies in it…classic ones at that, AND Flyover airlines aeroplanies.

I also see genius taxiing.

Slightly related Blubie link: https://youtu.be/5EOFnnBQjp8?si=NLBNdT2l0-HTjCo6

Wow, I didn't know this version existed. Very nice! Yu made my day three wee.

[Not_Karl]

Wow, I didn't know this version existed. Very nice! Yu made my day three wee.

A lil' wee Not_Karlie loved the song "Curtains" for Boeing? from the original, Not_expanded, Not_LitSwD including, vinyl version of that album.

I also see genius taxiing.

Indeed. The small Lear parking between/beneath the big L-1011 and 747 was cool .

[3WE]

So many photographic flaws…BUT WHO GIVES A FLYING PHUGOID!

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[elaw]

"If you ever feel the airplane is out of control, flip these switches to disable all the protective systems, since all they ever do is cause trouble. Then pull back relentlessly on the yoke."

[3WE]

"If you ever feel the airplane is out of control, flip these switches to disable all the protective systems, since all they ever do is cause trouble. Then pull back relentlessly on the yoke."

Is it Boeing Bobby explaining 2-engine operation on a DC-6?

[Not_Karl]

"If you ever feel the airplane is out of control, flip these switches to disable all the protective systems, since all they ever do is cause trouble. Then pull back relentlessly on the yoke AND RELENTLESSLY PULL THE FIRE HANDLES."

Expanded.

[elaw]

Totally not_a_jetphoto but I thought you might find this amusing. I was poking around newspapers.com and decided to look up the local paper for the day I was born. In said newspaper I found this:

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Interesting to see there were only 4 inbound and 5 outbound international flights that day, and all were listed in the newspaper!

PS this is from the early 1960s.

[3WE]

Brianie’s, and even not_Karlie’s humor-intended criticisms are not_needed.