When traveling by air was an event

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 12 Mar 2007, 22:41

What a relief! Yet another Dane! Proves that we're not alone!

Welcome to the forum Nils

Post by **Garry Russell** » 12 Mar 2007, 22:43

Hello Nils

And a very warm welcome to the forum with such a great first post.

It really is wonderful to read first hand of what an adventure such a trip could be.

Thanks a lot for a great read and in english better than some of us natives.

BTW I edited you link to make it open up directly instead of going to a Google result page

ATB

Garry

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 12 Mar 2007, 23:07

Nils

Welcome to the monkey house

Your shot is incredible captures that old Douglas feeling .....BTW As Garry said your English is better than my
Danish. Ive flown over Greenland a couple of times and remember when
Sonderstrom was "Bluie West Eight" - my last crossing was riding in Saga
class on an Icelandair 757 enroute fromBIKF-KBOS

. Maybe you can keep
our resident Dane (Dan) in line.

Again welcome and hope you enjoy the forum

Leif (English not Scandinavian - although after working for a year with the
good folks at IceOps in Keflavik got used to be called Leifur)

Post by **Garry Russell** » 12 Mar 2007, 23:16

Hi Leif

What does Leifur mean?

Is it a hairy Leif :roll:

Garry

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 12 Mar 2007, 23:25

Greeting Nils. Wonderful posts guys. I thoroughly enjoy hearing about the good old days from you senior citizens (especially Leifur)

It reminds me of this print that is regularly on sale on eBay for Â£20 which rather tempts me:

My father managed to make his last flight in a rather stylish manner. I took him to San Francisco on a trip when he was 85 (He's 91 now!) to cheer him up after Mum died. He dressed in his blazer with regimental badge and regimental tie and naturally I found him a First Class seat. The Captain invited him on to the Flight Deck for take-off and landing on the 744. He achieved two of his lifelong ambitions on the flight - to see the icebergs of Greenland and the Rockies. The return flight was even better. Due to damage by a ground vehicle we were delayed 24 hours and flew back with only 2 passengers - Dad and the Captain's wife. He spent the night wandering about the empty aircraft and achieved his last ambition - to see the Northern Lights. On arrival at LHR the dispatcher was completely gobsmacked to open the door and see only 2 immaculately dressed people disembark from a 747 on to the jetway! Not many people have ever had a flight experience like that and I still can't believe that I was lucky enough to help make it happen for him.

Ian

Post by **Garry Russell** » 12 Mar 2007, 23:29

Ah yes the famous picture

Often wondered about the feathered prop.......but being a Stratocruiser perhaps that's not so odd.

The formal dress is well shown.

Garry

Post by **Garry Russell** » 12 Mar 2007, 23:36

A couple of links of interest here

http://www.ovi.ch/b377/cutaway/boac.html

http://flare.net/users/e9ee52a/Pam%20Am ... ruiser.htm

Garry

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 13 Mar 2007, 00:05

Thanks for those, Garry. Very nice. 20 hours, 2 stops New York to Paris. Your immaculate suit wouldn't look so good after that!

I did a 19 hour duty once which was about 15 hours airborne. LHR to Buenos Aires. But we did have bunks!

rodata · Post by **rodata** » 14 Mar 2007, 16:19

Dan, Gary, Leifur (Viking name - Gary) and Ian,

Thank You for the warm Welcome!
I can understand that this topic is for the odd subjects and the screwballs

That suits me fine.

My main interest is old airliners - first and formost propliners.
I have allso done a lot of scale modelling, and I was a member of IPMS for several years (I even won a competition

).

Gary, I can not promise you to keep Dan on line. After all he is a Dane, and them folks are very difficult to control.

I hope I contribute a little to the forum in the future.

Kind regards
Nils