C-97G back in the air
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C-97G back in the air
The Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation's C-97G is back in the air. On 7th November it departed Floyd Bennett Field for Reading in Pennsylvania, its new home base.
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I hope they can bring the old darling over to the UK at some point soon - what a bird!
Indeed. Sure brings back memories of a line of them in the BOAC maintenance area at LAP.
I wish the owners of the C-97 all the luck in the world, and I hope that it can make it's way over to europe to the airshows in the near future.
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Brooklyn GF.
I recall seeing a couple of ANG KC-97s airborne in the twilight of their career, one heading along Green 1 into Europe, the other into Mildenhall. From the comfort of a Miami Airport terminal in 1992 I watched an Agro Air KC-97 start down the runway - both outboard engines emitted huge puffs of smoke and the take off was abandoned!
I recall seeing a couple of ANG KC-97s airborne in the twilight of their career, one heading along Green 1 into Europe, the other into Mildenhall. From the comfort of a Miami Airport terminal in 1992 I watched an Agro Air KC-97 start down the runway - both outboard engines emitted huge puffs of smoke and the take off was abandoned!
Treaders,
Me too. On my first transit through Miami in 1985, I saw a Stratocruiser taxi out from the “boneyard” on the north side. Mine managed a successful takeoff!
Me too. On my first transit through Miami in 1985, I saw a Stratocruiser taxi out from the “boneyard” on the north side. Mine managed a successful takeoff!
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There often seemed to be a pair sunning themselves in Cockroach Corner - think there was a third that met a tragic end in a built up area somewhere in Central America.
The BOAC ones were the B-377 Stratocruiser, similar in appearance but a distinctly different civilian airliner, with notably different internal systems.
The 1987 accident at Mexico City was one of the Haiti-registered Miami-based ones. I recall a Boeing statement the day after the accident that "We didn't know any were still being used". Since, despite the country of registration, they actually operated from a major US airport alongside its principal runway, and were a notable sight to all and well known to enthusiasts and featured in publications, this did not say a lot for Boeing's record keeping. I went through there a couple of times in the early 1990s and they were still there, but never saw one move.
The 1987 accident at Mexico City was one of the Haiti-registered Miami-based ones. I recall a Boeing statement the day after the accident that "We didn't know any were still being used". Since, despite the country of registration, they actually operated from a major US airport alongside its principal runway, and were a notable sight to all and well known to enthusiasts and featured in publications, this did not say a lot for Boeing's record keeping. I went through there a couple of times in the early 1990s and they were still there, but never saw one move.