Extinct Airlines

[Al Czervik]

2 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said:

Alaska Aeronautical Incorporated 

That particular Otter was deregistered in 1989 and went to the Philippines. 

[Walt Longmire]

1 minute ago, Al Czervik said:

That particular Otter was deregistered in 1989 and went to the Philippines. 

I liked flying in the Twin Otters. Very stable aircraft. AAI had several of them.

[G26S239]

19 hours ago, janice6 said:

I had a great time for my first airline experience.

 

My first flight wasn't fun like yours but it was my flight to RTC San Diego just 21 years later. 

[UHLAWPUP]

Flew them a lot in the '80s.  Still have a silverware set from one of their meals.  Maybe a collector will buy it from me someday.

 

By the way, Lufthansa is putting real cutlery in their meals again, finally.

[Borg warner]

Now that we're talking about our first flights, My first flight was when I was about 4 or 5 years old in 1952 or 53. My dad was an aeronautical engineer and was interested in flying but also had the money to afford Air travel for a family of 4. Back in the early 50's air travel was a luxury.  But we would fly every year whne he got vaxcation time either to northern Ontario where his parents lived, or to Iowa where my mother's parents lived. One year when I was 6 or 7 they sent me on the airplane to Canada by myself. The stewardesses made a big fuss over me.

At the time when air travel was considered a luxury, airline food was as good as the food served in the better restaurants qat the time. Real butter, cloth napkins, silverware. I also remember our first flight on a Jet Aircraft in the late 50's and I remember my dad pointing gout to me how smooth the jet was compared to the earlier turboprops and pointed out to me how little the coffee in his cup vibrated on the dinner tray.

I remember that we usually flew American Airlines and I remember how those planes looked with the polished aluminum and the orange trim. The first ones we flew on were probably DC4's  American Airlines is still in business today after having bought out TWA in 2001 and is currently part of Oneworld alliance, which owns British Airways, Iberia, and Finnair in the transatlantic market and with Cathay Pacific and Japan Airlines in the transpacific market

[DrB]

Island Airlines.  They flew the Ford Tri-Motor to the Islands on Lake Erie.  Will have to look it up but remember the plane.

DrB.. 

[janice6]

10 minutes ago, Borg warner said:

Now that we're talking about our first flights, My first flight was when I was about 4 or 5 years old in 1952 or 53. My dad was an aeronautical engineer and was interested in flying but also had the money to afford Air travel for a family of 4. Back in the early 50's air travel was a luxury.  But we would fly every year whne he got vaxcation time either to northern Ontario where his parents lived, or to Iowa where my mother's parents lived. One year when I was 6 or 7 they sent me on the airplane to Canada by myself. The stewardesses made a big fuss over me.

At the time when air travel was considered a luxury, airline food was as good as the food served in the better restaurants qat the time. Real butter, cloth napkins, silverware. I also remember our first flight on a Jet Aircraft in the late 50's and I remember my dad pointing gout to me how smooth the jet was compared to the earlier turboprops and pointed out to me how little the coffee in his cup vibrated on the dinner tray.

I remember that we usually flew American Airlines and I remember how those planes looked with the polished aluminum and the orange trim. The first ones we flew on were probably DC4's  American Airlines is still in business today after having bought out TWA in 2001 and is currently part of Oneworld alliance, which owns British Airways, Iberia, and Finnair in the transatlantic market and with Cathay Pacific and Japan Airlines in the transpacific market

I agree about the food.  Back then it was excellent. 

[DrB]

22 minutes ago, DrB said:

Island Airlines.  They flew the Ford Tri-Motor to the Islands on Lake Erie.  Will have to look it up but remember the plane.

DrB.. 

Found a picture.

 

[Borg warner]

21 minutes ago, DrB said:

Found a picture.

 

Amazing planes, They were actually the first successful commercial "Airliner".

The Ford Trimotor was a development of previous designs by William Bushnell Stout, using structural principles copied from the work of Professor Hugo Junkers, the noted German all-metal aircraft design pioneer, and adapted to an airframe very similar to the single engine Fokker F.VII - even using the same airfoil cross section at the wing root. Junkers successfully sued Ford in 1924 for patent infringement. The plane used three Curtiss-Wright air-cooled radial engines ranging from 200 horsepower to 300 and were later replaced by more powerful Pratt & Whitney Radials.

The first planes were originally built with corrugated aluminum outer bodies for strength but air turbulence ate up a lot of power and later they went to non-corrugated aluminum. The planes were rugged and easy to work on and remained in service many years after Ford ceased production in 1933.

[Bish1309]

3 hours ago, Walt Longmire said:

 

Do I see this correctly?    Wienair? Hmmm  Huma, what do you know about this. Hillary? Anyone?

Edited September 22, 2018 by Bish1309

[DrB]

The Tri-Motor was still island hopping up here in the late 60's early 70's if I remember correct.

DrB..

[AK_Stick]

23 hours ago, crockett said:

 

 

As long as they don't drop out of the sky. Chalk's had several issues going on over the years. This one killed 20.

 

 

 

Chalks only ever had one passenger fatality accident in close to 100 years

Edited September 22, 2018 by AK_Stick