aviation

January 21, 2022

I Just Watched “Concorde A Supersonic Story (BBC 2017). Iconic Airplanes In History”

I really enjoyed this… At one point Joan Collins was interviewed…. along with several flight attendants, pilots, people who worked on building it and even passengers… They only had one profitable route, New York to London… so they started chartering the plane out….There were people who profited from selling day excursions to exotic places. When the Concorde crashed in 2000, it was a chartered flight headed for a cruise. The last flight was in 2003. One of the...

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November 8, 2021

I Just Watched “Amelia Earhart: Queen Of The Air | Full Documentary | Biography” on YouTube

I just finished watching this on YouTube. She was 39 when she disappeared… she was declared dead in absentia on Jan 5, 1941. I wonder what she would think of the world today… or even in the 40’s and 50’s… a lot was going on in those decades as well. Her sister was interviewed (she died in 1998, this documentary was filmed in 1996) and said she talked a lot about not living very long. She no longer...

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September 8, 2021

I Just Watched”Come Fly With Me – The Story of Pan Am” on YouTube

I always loved Pan Am, I hated it when they shut down in the 90’s. I remember sitting in the airport waiting area while a Pan Am Boeing 747 was waiting to whisk myself and my family to Germany.. I was in utter awe. My love and fascination with aviation and all things transportation started with Pan Am. This documentary came out in 2011 and was narrated by Honor Blackman, who died last year at age 94. It’s...

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