AIRLINER TRIVIA QUIZ - Amazing facts about the Airline Industry from the 1930s to the Jet Age!
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- čas přidán 26. 03. 2023
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Back to the school bench....
Eddie Rickenbacker, when he was CEO of Eastern Airlines in the 1950s, made a comment about Capital Airlines making their DC-4s look like DC-6s by painting the squares around the oval windows. He said, "next thing you know they'll be painting people on the windows to make it look like they're carrying passengers."
I had not heard the term MEATBALL in a long time. Did not know about the alcohol burners in the Connies.
Cool video. IIRC, NASA used modified Gulfstream aircraft to train STS pilots with the main gear down during the approach phase. If you were tagged for HAFB SOF duty, you could see them training over at White Sands Space Harbor. Occasionally, when the pattern was empty, they’d shoot a shuttle approach to Rwy 16 then proceed down the VFR corridor back to ELP.
Fascinating, realy enjoy these
Looking at the TWA "Moon Rocket" and it's landing gear, its mind-blowing to see the SpaceX booster rockets using that same configuration in real life 60 years later.
#7 Hahaha...so 'Mad Men'. Love it.
Having lived within walking distance of LAX as a kid and RNO as an adult, this episode inspired nostalgia more than filling knowledge gaps.
Love it, but you gotta add about the HS Trident. First, that (as far as I know) its the only plane that started production with three engines, and ended production with four engines, and, the only airliner in which the nose gear is both off-center and retracts sideways!
A most enjoyable quiz and fun way to learn more aviation facts. Very nice photos too. Can you imagine the scalps that would be had if even the idea was suggested of a "men only" flight on an airliner today? Eek! Always a pleasure to see the Disneyland TWA Moon Rocket too. Thanks for your work on this one Mike.
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I agree with Barry, great video.
I got five wrong. My father trained pilots during WWII and won a medal from King George VI for his efforts. He worked for Canadian Pacific Airline (Repairs) in Calgary and they had the RCAF maintenance contract. If he got called into work on a Saturday he would take me and I would be able to play in everything you can imagine. At 7 yrs of age, it dawned on me that the dude flying that Sabre jet was just one regular-size guy riding one honking big jet engine and what a thrill that must have been. The first time I felt a 172 leave the ground with me at the controls you would have thought I was flying the Concorde!!! 🤣🤭😘Good video!
SAA also painted squares round C-54 windows, and another two deck airline was the French Breguet Deux Pont.
I always enjoy your videos! One of the most remarkable inflight videos I have seen was.a "sunrise" from a westbound Concorde. No, this was not your typical sunrise on a transatlantic flight to Europe. That Concorde took off from London at around
A Zeppelin question?... come on Mike!. Lol 😂
I don’t know much about AIRLINERS, the only one I know is the DC - 3
Very very interesting old historical facts !!! Thank you
Nice way to start my day. This was lots of fun and great pictures.