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1949 Boeing Stratocruiser
I remember getting 1st Class on a 747 during my military days and having the upstairs lounge. 'Course, the days of military flying for free are long, long gone. But they shouldn't be.
ReplyDeletewhkattk - Yeah, veterans are getting shafted more and more.
ReplyDeleteDid this plane come to fruition? It is so cool. So much nicer than what we are stuck with today. To expensive to operate? Slow?
ReplyDeleteuptonking - Oh, yes, it existed. It was retired in 1963.
ReplyDeletePan Am, not sad to see them out of business.
ReplyDeleteTheir crooked and greedy founder Juan Trippe used his connections with Senators, Wall Street and the Postal Authority to get his way.
Case 1 - Ralph O'Neill and his airline NYRBA in 1929 received the Federal airmail contract to serve Brazil and Argentina. Trippe saw to it that the contract was awarded to Pan Am in 1930 and with the help of Wall Street friends used leverage to buy NYRBA out from under O'Neill. As O'Neill himself said it was a combination shot gun wedding and rape.
Case 2- Transocean Airlines of California. This time Juan Trippe used the Civil Aeronautics Board to denie TOA to expand their Asian routes and go from a charter company to a full-fledged airline. The coup de grace was 1959 when TOA sought to buy jetliners from Boeing, Trippe told Boeing if they sold jets to TOA, he would see to it that Pan Am would buy no jetliners from Boeing. In 1960 Transocean Airlines dipped its wings closed its doors. -Rj
RJ - Wow, you know a lot of history!
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