411, that's quite an impressive logbook.
I wish our museum had the hangar space and the funds to add something like a Connie to the collection.
If I were a pilot, perhaps I would have strong likes and dislikes too.
My interest in aviation is largely based on the nostalgia and romance. Every aircraft is entwined by that contingent of humanity that I wrote about earlier. To negate one airplane would also negate all of those who were involved with it.
There is a DC-3 in our collection. One day an elderly man came and sat in it for hours - lost in his own world of memories and emotions. He was the only surviving member of a DC-3 flight crew that crashed fifty years earlier. It was the first time he had stepped back into a DC-3 since the crash. It was something that he just had to do before he died.
That was pretty overwhelming --
for him and all those at the museum that day.
Thank-you for your reply. I did enjoy reading about those airplanes that I
never will have the privilege of riding in as a passenger, never mind flying.
Hopefully I will be able to experience many of them at another flight museum some day.
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