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Fascinating pictures show Delta's 10 decades
Daily Mail ^
| 5/14/2019
| TED THORNHILL
Posted on 05/14/2019 8:18:41 AM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
Delta Air Lines flies to 370 destinations on six continents using a range of hi-tech Airbus and Boeing aircraft
But it started life as a crop-dusting outfit in 1924. It expanded to passenger transportation with fiver-seaters The pictures here reveal how air travel with Delta took huge leaps forward from 1936 onwards
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is worth $37billion (£28billion) and flies to 370 destinations on six continents with state-of-the-art aircraft.
Truly, its a titan of aviation.
But it started life as a crop-dusting outfit in 1924. And when it expanded to passenger transportation it used planes that could only hit 90mph, with the wind behind them. Delta has been on quite a journey, then and these fascinating pictures illustrate the carriers dramatic transformation over the decades.
They show some of its earliest passenger planes, a restored 1931 model with five passenger seats, a 1940 Douglas DC-3, which had 21 seats and was capable of 170mph, and a 1946 DC-4, which had 44 seats and a brisk-for-the-time top speed of 215mph.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: aviation; c47; dc3; delta; douglas
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This is a nice little aviation pictorial history. Some effort has been made that these examples do not have copyright stamps, just sayin.
To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
Airline history fascinates me. I have a beautiful book on the history of PanAm, all in color.
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posted on
05/14/2019 8:28:14 AM PDT
by
Veto!
(Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
Don’t
Ever
Leave
The
Airport
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posted on
05/14/2019 8:32:33 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
Don’t
Expect
Luggage
To
Arrive
To: joethedrummer
Since they bought out Northwest Airlines, DTW or Detroit Metro airport has been one of their regional hubs. I've lived here about 6.5 miles NNE of prime take off and landing route for the past 30+ years.
As I sit on my back porch all the planes flying over have the word Delta written on the underbelly. I've always wondered what they were trying to say. Thanks!
To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
The Airport Hilton at St. Louis is a shrine to TWA.
Every room, every hallway, restaurant and bar features happy folks getting on or getting off TWA airplanes...
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:19:36 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Veto!
Airline history fascinates me. I have a beautiful book on the history of PanAm, all in color.The world headquarters bldg. is still in Key West.
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:21:58 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
Branniff is still my all-time favorite airline.
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:23:05 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
The Lockheed Constellation was one of the (maybe even THE) prettiest airliner ever built. It looks almost organic, like a dolphin.
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:27:40 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
That second picture.
Barbara Bush sitting next to Lyndon Johnson.
Cool.
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:27:45 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
To: dfwgator
Interesting color schemes, beautiful Stewardesses (er...flight attendants”...bah)
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:34:14 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I can’t tell...is that for real? Kind of looks like LBJ from the side...
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:34:48 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
To: rlmorel
Sure its real.
And on the other side of the isle we have Tony Curtis. Sitting next to Marilyn Monroe.
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:38:36 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
To: rlmorel
I cant tell...is that for real? Kind of looks like LBJ from the side... His ears are too small for it to be LBJ.
To: DoodleDawg
LOL...I forgot about Mr. Original JugHandles!
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:41:16 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
To: Responsibility2nd
LOL, okay, now you are just being a jerk!
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:42:06 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
To: rlmorel
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:43:47 AM PDT
by
Bratch
(IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
To: rlmorel
Yep. And its not even lunch time.
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:43:52 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
Hi.
Do you know who purchased Piedmont Airlines?
Thanks.
5.56mm
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:44:28 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
(DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
To: Responsibility2nd
Heh, fish gotta swim, bird’s gotta eat!
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posted on
05/14/2019 9:46:05 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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