Tissues may be required....

[PPRuNe Pop]

A friend of mine in the US sent this link. Pure nostalgia.

Time to Say Goodbye (http://www.funstufftosee.com/goodbye.html)

[Lightning Mate]

Absolutely top shelf.

[skytrain10]

Classic, and very humbling. I feel priviliged to have worked for a couple of those airlines included in the slide show. Just sad to see the disappearance of so many great names, many of which in some way were pioneers of the industry we have today.

[PLovett]

Mmmm..................flown on a few of those and the thought has just occurred to me that perhaps we better add QANTAS to the list. :sad:

[con-pilot]

Yes, just as riveting and sad as it was when I posted this video a couple of years ago.

PanAm, who would have thought...... :(


Let alone TWA, BOAC, etc......

[PPRuNe Pop]

Yes, these links do get around a bit but I have never seen it before - and I suspect there are very many who haven't too. Such is life.

[chiglet]

Good aircraft recognition quiz there.... :ok:

[treadigraph]

Great airlines... great memories of Gatwick when I woz a kid...

I used to have the pic of the Wardair 747 with the crew as a postcard - always fancied the hostie in red and find that I still do 35 years later!

Reminds me that CP Air once gave me (and probably all small boys who knocked on their door in London) a magnificent set of A3 or A2 art prints of their historical aircraft - how I wish I still had them.

[Bengal Lancer]

Great stuff!!!......brought back quite a few memories!!!

BL

[Krystal n chips]

Very nostalgic...might add Flying Tigers, Seaboard and CP Air to the list as well.

[con-pilot]

Yes, these links do get around a bit but I have never seen it before - and I suspect there are very many who haven't too. Such is life.


Oh, not upset at all, everybody should see this video, excellently done, not to mention the sound tract is perfect for it.

It needs be re-posted occasionally. Definitely not ever to be forgotten.

[Shaggy Sheep Driver]

Delta's still around innit?

[con-pilot]

Delta's still around innit?

Yes, as is United, however, when this video was made both were in bankruptcy, so they were included, as there was a chance that one or both would not survive.

I well remember the day/night Braniff shut down. I had landed and noticed a Braniff 727 sitting on a high-speed turn off taxiway on the east parallel runway. About 45 minutes later as I drove over to the airport hotel to go to the bar, I noticed it was still sitting on the same high speed turnoff. About an hour later while I was sitting with four or five other pilots in the hotel bar, an entire Braniff airline crew came into the bar, ordered drinks and they were still in uniform.

This of course got our attention, then we noticed a couple of the Flight Attendants were crying and the pilots looked like their best friend died. One of the guys I was drinking with went over and asked what had happened. We were afraid that one of Braniff's aircraft had crashed.

No, Braniff was out of business. They were to spend the night at the hotel as scheduled and then the next day they would find out if they were to make their own way back home or to deadhead the aircraft to DFW.

Needless to say we would not allow them to pay for any of their drinks, we picked up their tab along with the owner of the hotel, a retired PanAm pilot.

That was a sad night.

[Rollingthunder]

We all have our ghosts...

Canadian Pacific Airlines Aircraft - YouTube