Originally Posted by
treadigraph
One lives and learns! Somewhere I've got the Putnam Beechcraft book - see if I can locate it - it's not with my others as it is a different size and a lot of books are in boxes at present,
Van Nuys must have been a superb place to be in the 60s, seems to be all biz jets now... The couple of times I was in LA either side of 2000 I didn't get there or to Burbank.
VNY was a hoot. Of course there were no business jets speak of in the early 60's other than the previously mentioned MS760, but there were On Mark A26's, along with the original Guppy that On Mark was building. Lockheed has a IRAN facility for the U2 so you seen one or two of them come and go every month. There was also a bar/resturant (SkyTrails), that was the social scene for many legendary aviators of that time period. Sorry for the thread drift.....
