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To: oyez; NaughtiusMaximus
Lockheed Superconnie. That's a real classic.

Yep. in 1961, I flew a SuperConnie (Flying Tiger Airlines USAF charter) from Travis AFB, CA, to Tachikawa AFB, Japan -- with stops at Hickham (HI) and Midway (or was it Wake?) Island.

Not much glamour: school bus type seats, stewardesses who looked like ex-Marine Drill Sergeants, and box lunches.

Mainly what I remember is 33 hours of droning engines...

54 posted on 05/17/2006 3:25:43 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah" = Satan in disguise)
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To: TXnMA

The one I was in, was full of radar screens. :-)


55 posted on 05/17/2006 3:29:41 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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