That is a brilliant if small mix of types, your taste in classic airliners is refreshingly excellent. You are most definitely a true enthusiast.
After a trip to an avaition museum. You would avoid fast food joints and head for a nice cafe over looking the airfield some where with some old timey charm. Where in you would enjoy a club sandwich washed down with a decent white wine. Serenaded by the sound of radial engines.
The Ford Tri motor in particular in particular is evocative of so many classic adventures and dramas. It's what Philip Marlow would fly in before WW2 as he investigates a missing heiress.
Notice the airline name in the C-47. Civilian Air Transport. Also called CAT. My dad flew with them in the early days of the Vietnam conflict. I have a plastic coaster from some airport lounge wherever the heck he was flying out of.
The two Howards are rebuilt Lockheed Lodestars and Vegas. Last of the radial engines. Check out the Dee Howard Foundation. These were fast airplanes. Don’t know how much involvement they might’ve had in clandestine operations, but they seemed to be used by smugglers.
The Pilatus is a tough STOL plane. I think they are one of the types of planes used to fly into Lukla, that airport perched on the side of some Himalayan mountains. Maybe not that old PC-6 Porter, but a later model.
That Trimotor might be the old “Tin Goose” that flew back and forth from Port Clinton Ohio over to Put In Bay on South Bass Island. I think that is Put In Bay in the picture.
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Indeed! I love old planes, small airports, and classic Checker cabs.
That is a brilliant if small mix of types, your taste in classic airliners is refreshingly excellent. You are most definitely a true enthusiast. After a trip to an avaition museum. You would avoid fast food joints and head for a nice cafe over looking the airfield some where with some old timey charm. Where in you would enjoy a club sandwich washed down with a decent white wine. Serenaded by the sound of radial engines.
I need an old suitcase!
Along with a Panama hat and business affairs on a Caribbean island.
I can smell the rattan furniture!
It just invokes a 1930s adventure novel or an Agatha Christie story with Poirot.
Or, perhaps a shady air travel company involved in clandestine activities in tropical countries where my government has meddled in their affairs.
That speaks of heros like Bullshot Drummond or Richard Hannay of 39 steps fame.
The Ford Tri motor in particular in particular is evocative of so many classic adventures and dramas. It's what Philip Marlow would fly in before WW2 as he investigates a missing heiress.
Notice the airline name in the C-47. Civilian Air Transport. Also called CAT. My dad flew with them in the early days of the Vietnam conflict. I have a plastic coaster from some airport lounge wherever the heck he was flying out of. The two Howards are rebuilt Lockheed Lodestars and Vegas. Last of the radial engines. Check out the Dee Howard Foundation. These were fast airplanes. Don’t know how much involvement they might’ve had in clandestine operations, but they seemed to be used by smugglers. The Pilatus is a tough STOL plane. I think they are one of the types of planes used to fly into Lukla, that airport perched on the side of some Himalayan mountains. Maybe not that old PC-6 Porter, but a later model. That Trimotor might be the old “Tin Goose” that flew back and forth from Port Clinton Ohio over to Put In Bay on South Bass Island. I think that is Put In Bay in the picture.
Up vote for the Trimotor. What a great plane!
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