Older civ collection

[phkza]

Man was I born in the wrong year. Superb pictures guys! Keep 'em coming!

[RobertS]

Interesting glazing on the nose. Safe to assume it is not a bombardier's position...?

Aerial photo version supplied to Hungary:
http://www.viztorony.hu/L-410/

The black line on the fuselage opposite the props, is that to make it easier to detect prop leaks, or to make them less visible?

Sorry, I have no idea...

[CJ]

Black 'lines' look like ice impact panels to me.
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[RobertS]

1962 Primorsko-Ahtarsk, USSR
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 38238&z=15

L-200 Morava CCCP-34405



Yak-18A "27" & L-200 Morava CCCP-34405



L-200 Morava CCCP-34498



Li-2 CCCP-16146

[tomh]

The Morava, an interesting type, seldom seen in the US.

Lockheed's 4-engine entry into the executive jet field, the L.1329 Jetstar, was a common site at airports around the country, if not the globe, in the 1960s and 1970s. It is pretty scarce today. I photographed this one at Reading, PA on 5 June 1974

[DG AIR]

Deze lijkt mij ook wel leuk SPL-O:






gr.

Ger

[ehusmann]

Lockheed's 4-engine entry into the executive jet field, the L.1329 Jetstar, was a common site at airports around the country, if not the globe, in the 1960s and 1970s. It is pretty scarce today. I photographed this one at Reading, PA on 5 June 1974

For sure my favourite among biz jets, old and new! But did you know that an even better looking biz jet could have preceded it? Not from Lockheed, but from Martin. They once proposed a passenger version of the B-57 Canberra to the Air Force. Unfortunately the Air Force wasn´t interested and the civil biz jet market was still non existent... What a shame...

Erwin

[tomh]

Erwin,
I had not heard of that Canberra idea before, but why not? The Canberra did everything else, with class!

[ehusmann]

Indeed It was the idea to redesign the cockpit to a conventional two person cockpit (side by side) and create a pressurized cabin behind the cockpit (where the bomb bay used to be). It only existed on paper....

Anyway, never built, so no pictures. But I will do with the great JetStar! Thanks for sharing all these, very nice to see.

Erwin

[Javindo50]

Budel 24-09-1972:


Budel 24-09-1972


Schiphol 15-07-1971:


Schiphol 15-07-1971:


Schiphol 15-04-1973:


Schiphol 06-08-1972:


Schiphol 30-06-1971:


Schiphol 03-07-1971:

[Hans Rolink]

A picture from the family album, credits to my late father.
Amsterdam-Schiphol, 30 June 1955 judging by the date stamped on the platform tour ticket he and his fiance bought that day.



Hans.

[EC]

Can't resist adding some of my favourites from the early eighties













rgds
EC

[tomh]

Rob,
Truly great selection of old airliners in that last post. There were so many interesting types back then. Turboprop power was never very popular in the USA, but between the European Manufacturers and the Eastern Block manufacturers there was a wide assortment of them in the air back when you took those shots. Excellent selection!

Hans,
Thank you so much for sharing that photo by your father. It is a dream-like photo, saturated in history. Wonderful!

L1011 N306EA landing runway #06 at Bradley Field, CT 21 May 1974. In the background is the small hangar that for many years housed an F-111 bailed to Pratt & Whitney for engine tests. I never once saw it outside this hangar.



BAC 111-203EA msn 071 N1136J landing runway #24 at Bradley AP 1971

[Javindo50]

Schiphol 11-07-1971, CCCP-42460 + PH-NVC


Schiphol 15-04-1973, Vickers 831 Viscount British Midland Airways G-APND


Schiphol 15-07-1971, Douglas DC-3 D.A.T. (Delta Air Transport) OO-GVG


Schiphol 30-06-1971, PH-DEH

[tomh]

Rob, that KLM DC-8 was so stretched I had to run out and buy a wide screen monitor!
Great stuff-all of it!

DC-3 N18141 Air NE at Logan 1974. Built as DC-3-227 NC18141 for American Airlines del 20 May 39. To N38PB.



Here's one with a cult following
CV880-22-2 N8805E Delta AL. Taking off rwy #15 at Bradley Field, Sep 1973