Identifying a logo

[luoto]

Could someone identify this logo on the side of a Boeing 747 (taken probably around 1974). Can't even identify the airport to help track it down?

Edit (the BB didn't like my Flickr link as an embed): https://www.flickr.com/photos/kuvamm...57645077945728

Either my Google fu is up the spout or it is a logo that has managed to escape the consciousness of my young (ahem, liar) brain! Thanks in advance.

[Just a spotter]

Perhaps ...

History of United Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[DaveReidUK]

I agree, almost certainly the old United "Stars and Bars" scheme:

[Airclues]

I've never seen a United 747 with a big 'C' on the nose.

Is the photo a mirror image or did they decide to load the pax through 1R and the catering through 1L?

[Fris B. Fairing]

I've never seen a United 747 with a big 'C' on the nose.

There was a lot of radome plagiarism going on at the time.

Rgds

[Selfloading]

I think the C is a watermark on the pic.
also the picture is the wrong way around, if you flip it around you can see the writing on top of the truck says United

[DaveReidUK]

if you flip it around you can see the writing on top of the truck says United

And also the VC-10 stop line on the apron, which might (slightly) narrow down the range of potential locations - JFK, possibly?

[luoto]

Thank you all very much for the kind identification (and pointing out the embarrassing flip in the image) - after a time there is a risk of blindness when the source material is on transparency or negatives. I'd blame the heat here

It is slightly more embarrassing as I did react to the air bridge being on the "wrong" side this morning when I first read the identification response, but I had a vague recollection that a couple of North American airports had done that for some reason or another and just thought that this was one of those strange things, all that time ago (the picture was taken circa Aug/Sept 1974 according to the limited information to hand.

Again, thank you!

[Tinwacker]

Is the photo a mirror image or did they decide to load the pax through 1R and the catering through 1L?

Now we know the transparency was the wrong way round another clue was the cargo containers on the wrong side too....

'Slides', that takes my photography back a few years..

[luoto]

(as an aside, yesterday one was processing even older material - glass slides that seem to want to explode if you look at them wrongly, that is to say rather fragile - and nearly as bad as wax phonograph cylinders that I handle as part of one of my things that keep me busy. I am just glad that I don't handle film negatives and have managed to reduce my use of sound reel archiving for a while).

To provide a veneer of aviation to my comment, Ill pass on this (general) link that might be of interest to some. Not everybody here would have been on the first flight Was This The First In-Flight Movie?

[Warmtoast]

Tinwacker

'Slides', that takes my photography back a few years..

..and me too. One of my first forays into colour slides whilst in the RAF was this one I took of one of 41 Sqn's Meteor F.8's at Biggin Hill in 1954. Taken from the then disused old Control Tower alongside the Westerham Road with the Bomb Dump showing on the other side of the runway.