Awesome post. Thank you Classic Airliners to provide us such an enchanting document. Lodestar and likes are amazing planes. My Dad flew them while in the WWII. Thank you again.
my dad was pilot for national airlines, 1946/48 flew the Buccaneer route out of Miami, he always referred to that plane as one fast ass plane! one of the most beautiful planes ever built!
Depends on the latitude. The equator is 40075 km in circumference. As you move towards the pole the circumference of a parallel gets shorter by cos(latitude). At the pole you can beat the earth's rotation on foot.
what an awesome video I bet they never ever imagined that in 2023 some guy sitting in his car in a Krispy Kreme donut parking lot would be watching this video on a device completely alien to them with a smile on my face the whole time enjoying just how much people used to really care about the work they do and we're proud to do a good job, making less money in a week than I do in a day (yes inflation, but still). this was the Golden age where things just were built really well and lasted a long time which is being proven true everyday that these planes are still taking off and delivering people and supplies to remote parts of the world. "they don't make 'em like they used to" rings loud and true here. no fancy computers, no hidden software that takes over the controls and crashes the plane, a time when people actually dressed up and flying was considered a formal affair. I wasn't born until 1989 and watching things like this makes me kind of wish I was born where I could have witnessed this Golden era with my own eyes. but only if I could take along my 5g cell phone lol
I love these films. The narrator got more excited as the film went on and so did I!
Awesome post. Thank you Classic Airliners to provide us such an enchanting document. Lodestar and likes are amazing planes. My Dad flew them while in the WWII. Thank you again.
In those days hard work and dedication to the max , attention to detail was very important. Nice video 👍
my dad was pilot for national airlines, 1946/48 flew the Buccaneer route out of Miami,
he always referred to that plane as one fast ass plane!
one of the most beautiful planes ever built!
Classic production film.
Great video ! Thank you -
this was very informative and interesting. thanks for posting
Back when flying was pretty risky...
Converted Loadstars and Howard conversions were the Gulfstreams of the '40,50,and early 60's.
My father flew Lockheed 10 & 12 if I remember correctly , WW2 Alaska / Victoria , TX . USAAF
Lodestars used to transport ganja from Jamaica to the USA during the late 60s and 70s.
At 13:58, a young Kelly Johnson
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The aircraft beat the earth’s rotation on its axis? Not possible, but I love these old clips!
Depends on the latitude.
The equator is 40075 km in circumference.
As you move towards the pole the circumference of a parallel gets shorter by cos(latitude).
At the pole you can beat the earth's rotation on foot.
jeroen79 very good point!
OK, but why would Lockheed use a French (F-ARTM) registered prototype for a promo film?
Неспроста извлекли из архива старую-старую фильму. И много других, например, про Seabees.
Estoy aprendiendo Inglés y como me gustan los aviones acá estoy ¿ podría subtitular lo en español?
"👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏"...!!!
How could a pilot stay awake for 20-30- or 50 hours? Of course... speed.
And it all falls apart when a pilot discovers Crack.
Your gonna have a new kinda momma. Lol
what an awesome video I bet they never ever imagined that in 2023 some guy sitting in his car in a Krispy Kreme donut parking lot would be watching this video on a device completely alien to them with a smile on my face the whole time enjoying just how much people used to really care about the work they do and we're proud to do a good job, making less money in a week than I do in a day (yes inflation, but still). this was the Golden age where things just were built really well and lasted a long time which is being proven true everyday that these planes are still taking off and delivering people and supplies to remote parts of the world. "they don't make 'em like they used to" rings loud and true here. no fancy computers, no hidden software that takes over the controls and crashes the plane, a time when people actually dressed up and flying was considered a formal affair. I wasn't born until 1989 and watching things like this makes me kind of wish I was born where I could have witnessed this Golden era with my own eyes. but only if I could take along my 5g cell phone lol