The Airport (1948) 

Thank you fro sharing that. A lovely story. Ru uk.

StellarBlue1 the riots and vietnam left a mess that still has not been cleaned up

StellarBlue1 Yah, yah, everything was better in the past. People have been saying that for thousands of years. People always romanticize the past, complain about the present and think the future will doom us all. By all important measures, the world is a much better place than back then.

StellarBlue1 ur 78 wow

Im near your age. Got to fly from Honolulu to California in a Super Constallation. Took 11 hours. Flew back to Hawaii in a DC-7. Long flight but the food was equivalent to restaurant food, and the seats were comfortable

mbazell In my mind, the very guy you’d want flying you would be a combat bomber or logistics pilot.

They hate it when folks pay close attention HaHaHa

Look, look! See Dick. See Jane. See Spot. Jump, Spot, jump!

Yes that is the same thought I had. Very simplistic narration probably for kids at about the 4th grade level. But still interesting!

its mister rogers level

Encyclopedia Britanica films were made specifically for grade school education. Basic stuff in an era long before the "information age" where most any kind of information became available at a touch of a few keys.

worlock1422 They still use flight strips but the have the aircraft on a screen; its position, altitude and speed reported by the aircraft and not the pilot.

BIGGLES flys again Thank you! I could not place the make of the little coupe.

Aero FPV g

Wow! Good to know. Thanks for that info!

Miles Rich So it was a DC-6 and not a 7. I thought it was a 7. Should’ve shown it to my Dad, he flew the military equivalent of both for thousands of hours.

Charlie made it. he's okay!

Ramon Orrantia

Robby Bonter Indeed! The Cleveland Indians won the World Series that year!

I was born in 1948

For who?

Miles Rich yeah bitch ...smelly ass

Then it's too advanced for today's millenials.

monaco74 Maybe there’d be less lost luggage if they still did it that way. Checked, re-checked and double checked.

Also explains why only rich people could travel back then... A $250 flight today cost the equivalent of $1500 back then.. (estimate)

Sorry, my first flight was in 1954. We sat on the Tarmac for 8 hours in 90F waiting for something in Dallas, Love Field.

A version of sneakernet?

Old man

OSTARAEB4 Washington to Los Angeles

I thought that was Midway airport. Amazing to see open fields and hardly no housing development around the airport.

just one joint

linuxophile These were designed for the classroom.

I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.

My name IS Shirley! How did you know?

+helios1912 Hell yeah, or O'Hare before it was O'Hare. the guy was flying a navion too...

Long Beach, CA home of Douglas Aircraft

midway

Obviously MDW. The overflight was over Chicago.. and the square I’ve only seen at MDW. Couldn’t be Meigs and ORD wasn’t opened yet. No houses at the fence... which is strange ... I thought they predated the airport. Who would buy a house at the fence of an airport?

I'm glad it's not so exclusive any more because I love to travel. I hate flying for the most part, but some airlines make it more tolerable than others. I'm really excited this year because I'm going to Delhi, India on Lufthansa. I usually fly Turkish to Asia, and I love the food, but the seat pitch is tight tight! Lufthansa is known for more generous seat space, so I may actually enjoy the experience for a change. Flying may have looked like a more enjoyable experience back then, especially in these promotional films, but I can't imagine it was. I don't think I would enjoy sitting there in my Sunday finest, with that incredibly loud piston engine screaming constantly and the cigarette smoke in the air that has nowhere to go. Even though I smoked back when I started flying, in the 1980s, I was happy when they stopped allowing it on airplanes. Piston-driven aircraft were still in common use in the 1980s, especially on regional flights, and I can tell you that unless you only spent an hour or less in the air, it was a miserable experience. Today, people dress much more comfortably and enjoy a far less noisy flight, less expensive than ever, sometimes even with great food, but in all cases with less to give you a pressure headache than ever before. The greater overall comfort of flying is a counterpoint to the usually tighter seat pitch. I'm excited to be flying on a plane with the old style pitch soon.

Yes, in the days when men wore neckties to go to work in a steel mill.