Loved it! My first flight was in a DC-3 as a young girl in New Zealand 1962. It was the first leg of my family's very long journey flying to NY for my fathers new position at the UN. I love those old planes.
What a fantastic and historic "Travelog". This film has everything: New Technology, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart, interviews, and a little camp. Thank You for sharing!
The final airport was Grand Central Terminal in Glendale, Ca, about 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. The terminal building still exists, but the airport itself is long gone, now an industrial complex that houses Walt Disney Imagineering among other tenants. GCT served as the main Los Angeles airport into the early 1950s, before LAX was built from a smaller regional airport.
Did a walk around the area several years ago after Disney took over. Only the terminal remains. Was nice to see the location of the hanger and ramp area in this film. There was an another Los Angeles airport near now Dodger Stadium. Know location of that one? LAX was called Mines field. Worked 37 years there.
@@jayreiter268 I'm not aware of an airport anywhere near the Dodger Stadium area. The closest I can think of was a small WW II training field near the intersection of the 5 and 134 freeways. There is absolutely no trace of this left, and I'm not completely sure on exactly where it was.
@@chansetwo Hughes airport was north of what is now LAX. It was east of Lincoln BL. and the Ballona Wetlands. I have not driven by there in a few years but it is mostly developed now.
And today in 2023 there is a family-owned Italian restaurant operating on Columbus’s east side approx 3 miles from Port Columbus…its name is “TAT Ristorante di Familia” and the founders were inspired by the TAT sign at old Port Columbus back in the day. True story!!
Loved the narrators comment about flying in winter time with the aircraft cabin was as snug as on your own private yacht. I would say yes, but not quite as damp (LOL)
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A few years ago I flew in a Ford Tri-Motor painted in TAT colors. What an enjoyable half hour excursion over Indiana, PA. We flew out of Jimmy Stewart Regional Airport. I really need to upload the video I took that day.
It's said that the Ford Tri-motor was the only plane that took off at 65, cruised at 65, and landed at 65. Since the narrator said they were travelling at 100, that may have just been hyperbole. I just finished a book on the Harvey Girls. In it they mentioned the little town of Waynoka, OK. Santa Fe Railway built a railroad station and rail yard there and opened up a Harvey House to feed travelers, railroad workers, and locals. When TAT went in to operations they chose Waynoka as a transfer point. This was good news for a small town with limited opportunities for employment. TAT only lasted a short time as it was hemorrhaging cash. The Harvey House and passenger station closed down after people stopped using trains as a major form of travel. The city of Waynoka suffered badly from the loss of jobs.
I read that book on the Harvey Girls three times. For myself, it closely parallel working for Pacific Telephone back in the 70's. I'm comparing how they treated their employees, the chance for promotion, able to transfer to other locations, would hire you back and other similarities. Infact I just got back from Santa Fe. One night I was waiting for my table for dinner at the LA Fonda (formerly a Harvey House). This woman struck up a conversation with me and I have to say, it was the nicest 10 minute conversation thst I ever had with Ali McGraw. I was walking on Cloud 9 for a couple days after that chance encounter.
This trip was barely faster than taking the train for the entire route, but the risk of death was at least a hundred times greater. The novelty, the view and the bragging rights were likely the main attraction for elites who could afford the fare.
@@almostfm That's true, I should have said it was 'somewhat' faster. Though in a noisy, unpressurized cabin lurching through the troposphere all the way, it may have seemed twice as long.
Certainly this flight wasn't without peril. In September of 1929 a TAT MATTOX Ford Tri-Motor crashed near the top of Mt. Taylor near Grants, New Mexico. The plane departed Albuquerque when the aircraft encountered thunderstorms reducing visibility when the "City of San Francisco" crashed killing all aboard. Air travel is safe but one must remember, people perish in aviation accidents regardless of how safe Col. Lindbergh said it was. There is numerous accounts online about this accident. Enjoyed this "movie" immensely! History in the making.
Look up the TH-cam on the 2 planes leaving LA at the same time but different destinations collided over the Grand Canyon. Lots of new safety rules came out of those lives.
@@elosogonzalez8739 It happened on 6.30.1956 between TWA and United. Two months later my family (I was four) visited the Grand Canyon. You could see parts of fuselage reflecting off the sun down in the canyon. Very surreal.
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My grandmother was witness to the entire transition, riding in a carriage and pair when she was a child in the 1890s all through to flying from the UK to Nigeria in a plane that was possibly even more dangerous than the one here. That flight was in the mid 1930s. And she didn't enjoy it but it saved a lot of time cutting the journey down to about a week. But if you think about, in 90 years or so since then, very little has changed. Planes got gradually faster, longer range and safer through to the 1960s when their speed reached close to the speed of sound. The Concorde experiment turned out to be just that and we're all now back to the same options of cars, boats, trains and planes, the last two firmly limited by the speed of sound. Space travel now is very much at the same stage as the air travel depicted in this film. Will space travel become popularised as air travel did? I very seriously doubt it. The amount of fuel expended per passenger and the CO2 generated are obscene. Hyperloop? Maybe. But there seems to be awful trouble getting the tube/track to be level enough for use. Then there's the semi-vacuum, the method to handle junctions, and, perhaps most serious, the evacuation of a stranded or burning "train."
I guessed we owe a lot to these people who boarded unsafe airplanes until sometime in the 60s, when, I believe, commercial flight did actually become safe. All of this video's footage was clearly shot while on the ground. That plane was state-of-the-art at the time. I am guessing in the early to mid 30's.
Actually, they did have one. Bear in mind that this was an unpressurized aircraft... the "toilet" was just a seat surrounding an open hole. When you used it, you were bombarding the landscape below.
a couple of these are still flying. Bet they'd have fully booked flights if one recreated the route today. They could even get a LIndburgh lookalike to fly along side which would serve no greater purpose today than it did back then but it would be a novelty attraction
@@erik_griswold Not really. Most of TWA was sold off or abandoned. I have videos of the auction and the deserted and empty Kansas City overhaul base. Also videos of the dismantled JFK terminal and LAX hanger. Most of us were laid off.
You might wonder why they didn't just fly straight through. Earnest Gann said the Ford At-5 was unsafe to fly at night, due to the way the windshield glass was angled -- it created a lot of reflections. Also, at the time, there were almost no navaids that could be used at night. Airmail pilots did it, but it was judged too unsafe for passenger flying. Additionally, the railroads were politically powerful, and so one way to prevent them from stirring up too much trouble was to give them a piece of the action.
Interesting to me that the flight was made about 90 years ago about the same number of years into the past from 1929 when the first trips were made by covered wagon and took over 6 months coast to coast .
Let's dial it back a little. The contrast can be sensed in one lifetime. Think of how drastically life had changed for someone who might have been 65 in 1929. Just before the first transcontinental railroad to the beginnings of the above trip. From open horse carriages as thousands of years before to enclosed autos. From days of sailing below Africa and South America (again for hundreds of years before) to the completion of Suez and later Panama. And 65 was not an unheard of life span. But finally, here's a little tidbit that might make you feel old. Cigarette ads have been off radio and TV longer than they were ever on.
Today, you can fly non-stop between New York and Los Angeles in about five and a half hours, and nonstop from Los Angeles to New York in about five hours (the west-to-east flight takes slightly less time than an east-to-west flight because flying towards the East Coast, you're going with the jet stream, but going east-to-west, you're flying against the jet stream).
Yes, true. And now you’re crammed like livestock into a 27” wide seat with no legroom, while having to endure TSA workers who do nothing except confiscate items from you that were deemed safe for decades, but which a zero-risk allowed policy now deems too dangerous, like shampoo, or a pen knife. Up until 9/11 I used to fly with a 4” Spyderco police knife, and in the 1960’s you could carry a hunting rifle onto the plane with you and stand it up between the wide, comfortable seats. Unloaded of course, but now you clearly mark them and check them to make it easier for the luggage handlers to identify and steal the cases. The real tragedy is that the best rail system in the world is now too expensive to use as it’s “managed” by the Government. I’m still in sticker shock at the price of a transcontinental rail ticket, which is easily $1500.
@@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo Sorry about the slow reply. I fly 'cattle class'. It's all economics of course. I live in Australia (Melbourne) and regularly (pre covid) visit England and the USA. A round trip to either country is about $1200 which is remarkably cheap when you think about it. I'm a big guy but I don't find it too bad especially if you can get a seat in front of a bulkhead or beside an emergency door. My first trip to the USA was in 1976 with PanAm. I smoked in those days and I spent most of the flight at the rear of the 747 standing with other smokers and helping ourselves to beer from the galley. On another flight to England with Cathay in 1994 I and my two young kids were invited into the cockpit, in flight, no problems. Don't talk to me about TSA. A couple of years ago I was going thru security at Los Angeles when I was pulled aside by TSA for what turned out to be a body search (thankfully not the latex gloves and bend over type). I could not understand one word the security man was saying and neither could anyone else. It eventuated that he wanted to pat me down but was asking if I wanted it done in public or private. At the time I thought that at an international airport in the USA TSA would employ somebody with at least basic english. I sympathise with you on the cost of rail travel but I presume labor costs, amongst others, would be high and not offset by carrying the mail etc. and government employees don't come cheap.
Hey, was that Colonel Sanders in the front on the left? Probably going to sell some fried chicken. I love these vids, so much to learn from with regards to life in the past.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the guys who raced in the Cannon Ball Run during the early to mid 2000's went from NYC to LA in just over 24 hours!!! That was in their cars! But not nearly as glamorous.
You're not wrong. Of course, they had two drivers, only stopped for gas/bathroom breaks, and didn't particularly care about the speed limits. Many years ago, I drove from eastern Tennessee to my home in California with about 33 hours of actual "on the road" time, broken up over about 2 1/2 days.
02:44 - "And at exactly six - five P.M. the Airway Limited, first and only train of its kind in the world, with a direct airline connection, pulls out with its air minded guests." Airheads?
LOL it takes 2 hours to fly 150 miles? thats insane. No wonder it took 15 hours to fly from LA to Hawaii, Planes maxed out at 250mph and flew about 500 feet off the ground.
As I recall, pretty much, yes. The train and plane thing didn't last very long. Once they had enough airports it was a plane all the way, but still the many small hops. Then the hops started to get longer and longer.
Col. Atterbury shot himself in the foot on this idea. He and some of the other RR Presidents should have been looking at dedicated transcontinental high speed rail. The technology was there. In 6 years, the designs for the Penny duplexes, the fastest steam locos on earth, would be on the design boards. Where the mighty S-1 could be unleashed
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@@lwilton the man was a Nazi sympathizer and received too much credit for what he did accomplish. In other words, His reputation was bigger than his skill
@@oldninjarider First across the Atlantic solo....what have YOU ever done that demonstrates he received "too much credit" for that? lol. Played a large personal role in promoting US air travel... (He made poor friends and choices before the war., thats true...but I suppose YOU are perfect and have never done anything you regret?) ..but did you know he provided valuable expert assistance to the US forces in the Pacific in WW2...and even flew (illegally) on combat missions?
@@oldninjarider Do you fly? I doubt it because if you did you wouldn't make such ignorant statements. You probably rely heavily on the GPS in your car ffs, lol.
@@jimmartin7881 do you understand Non-sequitur? Look at the facts he was an anti-semite and was distrusted even by Roosevelt. www.history.com/news/10-fascinating-facts-about-charles-lindbergh "As the United States edged closer to war, many began to denounce the former hero as an anti-Semite and a traitor. Lindbergh gave up his crusade and tried to win a commission in the military after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but President Roosevelt-who privately called the aviator a Nazi-barred him from serving." some hero.
How cool was it to see Amelia Earhart at the end.
That non-standard phraseology in the radio call was outrageous.
Loved it! My first flight was in a DC-3 as a young girl in New Zealand 1962. It was the first leg of my family's very long journey flying to NY for my fathers new position at the UN. I love those old planes.
Sounds awesome! That must've been a culture shock though, what was his position with the UN? Did you remain in NY or move back when you grew up?
Flying in a DC3 is on my bucket list. Beautiful plane.
Back then the in-flight movie was looking out the window. What a time it was. Neat post. Thanx.
That's still my favorite in flight movie :)
What a difference 90+ years make!
What a fantastic and historic "Travelog". This film has everything: New Technology, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart, interviews, and a little camp. Thank You for sharing!
The final airport was Grand Central Terminal in Glendale, Ca, about 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. The terminal building still exists, but the airport itself is long gone, now an industrial complex that houses Walt Disney Imagineering among other tenants. GCT served as the main Los Angeles airport into the early 1950s, before LAX was built from a smaller regional airport.
Did a walk around the area several years ago after Disney took over. Only the terminal remains. Was nice to see the location of the hanger and ramp area in this film. There was an another Los Angeles airport near now Dodger Stadium. Know location of that one? LAX was called Mines field. Worked 37 years there.
@@jayreiter268 I'm not aware of an airport anywhere near the Dodger Stadium area. The closest I can think of was a small WW II training field near the intersection of the 5 and 134 freeways. There is absolutely no trace of this left, and I'm not completely sure on exactly where it was.
Howard Hughes owned the land that is now LAX, and used it for his personal plane.
@@chansetwo Hughes airport was north of what is now LAX. It was east of Lincoln BL. and the Ballona Wetlands. I have not driven by there in a few years but it is mostly developed now.
@@chansetwo Just checked Google Earth completely developed.
"5000 feet in the air at a speed of 100 miles per hour' Love the "radio procedure too.."westbound plane calling Wichita" "OK..Goodbye"
And after saying "Goodbye," he carefully removes his headphones and puts his cap back on 🤣
Amazing historical film.
This was so cool and yet so corny. Loved it!
Flying at this low height was so cool. You could see all of the landscape.
Yeah, and they hit at least one mountain on the way, killing all aboard.
@@riverraisin1 Planes still crash today.
And today in 2023 there is a family-owned Italian restaurant operating on Columbus’s east side approx 3 miles from Port Columbus…its name is “TAT Ristorante di Familia” and the founders were inspired by the TAT sign at old Port Columbus back in the day. True story!!
Loved the narrators comment about flying in winter time with the aircraft cabin was as snug as on your own private yacht. I would say yes, but not quite as damp (LOL)
Formation flying in an airliner. Such innocence. Good insights in this film.
No passenger seatbelts either.
The Pennsylvania Railroad was a pioneer in both air transport and bussing, both of which did so much to put them out of business!
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Haha. “Wichita ground control answering west bound plane.” Absolutely priceless!
This thing cracked me up! The arrival in Indiaponipolis looked like they were landing in a harvested cornfield!
A few years ago I flew in a Ford Tri-Motor painted in TAT colors. What an enjoyable half hour excursion over Indiana, PA. We flew out of Jimmy Stewart Regional Airport. I really need to upload the video I took that day.
Please do!
I'm jealous
I got a chance once to fly in the co-pilot's seat in one. Utterly fascinating. And loud.
What an enjoyable film, certainly shows how a few very rich people could live back in the day. Suppose nothing changes in the respect
Totally disagree, anyone with reasonable income and resources can travel anywhere in this world if desired.
It's said that the Ford Tri-motor was the only plane that took off at 65, cruised at 65, and landed at 65. Since the narrator said they were travelling at 100, that may have just been hyperbole.
I just finished a book on the Harvey Girls. In it they mentioned the little town of Waynoka, OK. Santa Fe Railway built a railroad station and rail yard there and opened up a Harvey House to feed travelers, railroad workers, and locals. When TAT went in to operations they chose Waynoka as a transfer point. This was good news for a small town with limited opportunities for employment.
TAT only lasted a short time as it was hemorrhaging cash. The Harvey House and passenger station closed down after people stopped using trains as a major form of travel.
The city of Waynoka suffered badly from the loss of jobs.
I read that book on the Harvey Girls three times.
For myself, it closely parallel working for Pacific Telephone back in the 70's.
I'm comparing how they treated their employees, the chance for promotion, able to transfer to other locations, would hire you back and other similarities.
Infact I just got back from Santa Fe.
One night I was waiting for my table for dinner at the LA Fonda (formerly a Harvey House). This woman struck up a conversation with me and I have to say, it was the nicest 10 minute conversation thst I ever had with Ali McGraw.
I was walking on Cloud 9 for a couple days after that chance encounter.
14:20 - Winslow hasn't changed much. 14:46 - Nice shot of Meteor Crater. I once worked as a tour guide at the "mighty hole", as the narrator calls it.
TWA really pulled out all the stops. Charles Lindbergh seeing them off at one end and Amelia Earhart greeting them at the other!
But Amelia never showed up.....??.........
The music changes to "Lucky Lindy" when he's inspecting the engine :-)
This trip was barely faster than taking the train for the entire route, but the risk of death was at least a hundred times greater. The novelty, the view and the bragging rights were likely the main attraction for elites who could afford the fare.
From what I'm seeing, the fastest train to an entire extra day. I wouldn't say that cutting 1/3 off the travel time was "barely faster".
@@almostfm That's true, I should have said it was 'somewhat' faster. Though in a noisy, unpressurized cabin lurching through the troposphere all the way, it may have seemed twice as long.
WOW,what a long long long journey! would love to have done it thought, flying so low
Love to go back to such a simpler time!
Transcontinental Air Transport later became Trans World Airlines, also known as TWA.
On Ebay I found one of those illustrated maps filled out by a passenger in 1929. Very cool add to my collection.
Certainly this flight wasn't without peril. In September of 1929 a TAT MATTOX Ford Tri-Motor crashed near the top of Mt. Taylor near Grants, New Mexico. The plane departed Albuquerque when the aircraft encountered thunderstorms reducing visibility when the "City of San Francisco" crashed killing all aboard.
Air travel is safe but one must remember, people perish in aviation accidents regardless of how safe Col. Lindbergh said it was. There is numerous accounts online about this accident. Enjoyed this "movie" immensely! History in the making.
Look up the TH-cam on the 2 planes leaving LA at the same time but different destinations collided over the Grand Canyon. Lots of new safety rules came out of those lives.
@@eddylauterback1312 That accident was many years later.
@@elosogonzalez8739
It happened on 6.30.1956 between TWA and United.
Two months later my family (I was four) visited the Grand Canyon. You could see parts of fuselage reflecting off the sun down in the canyon.
Very surreal.
I just saw a part of this film in the 2020 documentary, "Across the Pacific". How cool!
I saw parts of this film when PBS paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of the DC-3 back in 1986.
LOL! The sole identification of the TAT flight is “westbound plane.” Guess that was enough. Not like there were hundreds of other flights in the air.
Such a treasure !! Just beautiful
amazing archive footage, should go back on those reels and digitize and restore it. some amazing views ! brilliant ! keep it save. 🤲🙏
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Um, it had to be digitized to upload to TH-cam, you boob.
Amazing! I wonder how we’ll travel this same route in another 100 years.
My grandmother was witness to the entire transition, riding in a carriage and pair when she was a child in the 1890s all through to flying from the UK to Nigeria in a plane that was possibly even more dangerous than the one here. That flight was in the mid 1930s. And she didn't enjoy it but it saved a lot of time cutting the journey down to about a week.
But if you think about, in 90 years or so since then, very little has changed. Planes got gradually faster, longer range and safer through to the 1960s when their speed reached close to the speed of sound. The Concorde experiment turned out to be just that and we're all now back to the same options of cars, boats, trains and planes, the last two firmly limited by the speed of sound.
Space travel now is very much at the same stage as the air travel depicted in this film. Will space travel become popularised as air travel did? I very seriously doubt it. The amount of fuel expended per passenger and the CO2 generated are obscene.
Hyperloop? Maybe. But there seems to be awful trouble getting the tube/track to be level enough for use. Then there's the semi-vacuum, the method to handle junctions, and, perhaps most serious, the evacuation of a stranded or burning "train."
I guessed we owe a lot to these people who boarded unsafe airplanes until sometime in the 60s, when, I believe, commercial flight did actually become safe. All of this video's footage was clearly shot while on the ground. That plane was state-of-the-art at the time. I am guessing in the early to mid 30's.
I flew on this. That is me In the back! The guy with the iPad !!
I see my grandfather on that plane, back left.
My grandfather worked for TAT/Maddux, in sales. Not easy to get someone off the ground back then. Scary
Lord that was a lot of stops. I guess no bathroom on the plane in those days.
Actually, they did have one. Bear in mind that this was an unpressurized aircraft... the "toilet" was just a seat surrounding an open hole. When you used it, you were bombarding the landscape below.
a couple of these are still flying. Bet they'd have fully booked flights if one recreated the route today. They could even get a LIndburgh lookalike to fly along side which would serve no greater purpose today than it did back then but it would be a novelty attraction
Will the look like Lindy still frame Bruno hauptman
Again for kidnapping his kid?
Will the look like Lindy still frame Bruno hauptman
Again for kidnapping his kid?
Predecessor of TWA
Now a part of American.
@@erik_griswold Not really. Most of TWA was sold off or abandoned. I have videos of the auction and the deserted and empty Kansas City overhaul base. Also videos of the dismantled JFK terminal and LAX hanger. Most of us were laid off.
@@jayreiter268 What AA did after acquiring TW was terrible, but the fact remains that AA acquired TW.
Why, Ethel B. Detroit! This is a banger of a picture!
Lindbergh's picture over the fireplane vaguely suggests the Generalissimo Franco treatment
It seems like a lot of bother and one should guess a deal more expense to shave about one day off the journey time. The train in 1930 took 3 days.
Trains being what they were back then, I'd have stayed in a comfy Pullman. Today, if I couldn't fly, I'd just much rather drive myself.
@@postal_the_clown Yes anything rather than being herded like cattle through security checks and baggage claims.
You might wonder why they didn't just fly straight through. Earnest Gann said the Ford At-5 was unsafe to fly at night, due to the way the windshield glass was angled -- it created a lot of reflections. Also, at the time, there were almost no navaids that could be used at night. Airmail pilots did it, but it was judged too unsafe for passenger flying. Additionally, the railroads were politically powerful, and so one way to prevent them from stirring up too much trouble was to give them a piece of the action.
Is this the first recording of a commercial aircraft with original sound?
Interesting to me that the flight was made about 90 years ago about the same number of years into the past from 1929 when the first trips were made by covered wagon and took over 6 months coast to coast .
Let's dial it back a little. The contrast can be sensed in one lifetime. Think of how drastically life had changed for someone who might have been 65 in 1929. Just before the first transcontinental railroad to the beginnings of the above trip. From open horse carriages as thousands of years before to enclosed autos. From days of sailing below Africa and South America (again for hundreds of years before) to the completion of Suez and later Panama. And 65 was not an unheard of life span.
But finally, here's a little tidbit that might make you feel old. Cigarette ads have been off radio and TV longer than they were ever on.
14:20 - Winslow hasn't changed much.
The beginning of air transport.
Today, you can fly non-stop between New York and Los Angeles in about five and a half hours, and nonstop from Los Angeles to New York in about five hours (the west-to-east flight takes slightly less time than an east-to-west flight because flying towards the East Coast, you're going with the jet stream, but going east-to-west, you're flying against the jet stream).
5.47 "Airliners nowadays are as snug and comfortable as your own private yacht". The promo was obviously targeting a certain class of people.
Yes, true. And now you’re crammed like livestock into a 27” wide seat with no legroom, while having to endure TSA workers who do nothing except confiscate items from you that were deemed safe for decades, but which a zero-risk allowed policy now deems too dangerous, like shampoo, or a pen knife. Up until 9/11 I used to fly with a 4” Spyderco police knife, and in the 1960’s you could carry a hunting rifle onto the plane with you and stand it up between the wide, comfortable seats. Unloaded of course, but now you clearly mark them and check them to make it easier for the luggage handlers to identify and steal the cases. The real tragedy is that the best rail system in the world is now too expensive to use as it’s “managed” by the Government. I’m still in sticker shock at the price of a transcontinental rail ticket, which is easily $1500.
@@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo Sorry about the slow reply. I fly 'cattle class'. It's all economics of course. I live in Australia (Melbourne) and regularly (pre covid) visit England and the USA. A round trip to either country is about $1200 which is remarkably cheap when you think about it. I'm a big guy but I don't find it too bad especially if you can get a seat in front of a bulkhead or beside an emergency door. My first trip to the USA was in 1976 with PanAm. I smoked in those days and I spent most of the flight at the rear of the 747 standing with other smokers and helping ourselves to beer from the galley. On another flight to England with Cathay in 1994 I and my two young kids were invited into the cockpit, in flight, no problems.
Don't talk to me about TSA. A couple of years ago I was going thru security at Los Angeles when I was pulled aside by TSA for what turned out to be a body search (thankfully not the latex gloves and bend over type). I could not understand one word the security man was saying and neither could anyone else. It eventuated that he wanted to pat me down but was asking if I wanted it done in public or private. At the time I thought that at an international airport in the USA TSA would employ somebody with at least basic english.
I sympathise with you on the cost of rail travel but I presume labor costs, amongst others, would be high and not offset by carrying the mail etc. and government employees don't come cheap.
I'm sure the stock market crash in October of that year certainly didn't help business, either. $352 bought one a brand new Ford in those days!
$10,000 in today's money is still an incredible deal . . . . if only.
@@gilzor9376 You didn't get much for that price. (not that that's a bad thing...)
Hey, was that Colonel Sanders in the front on the left? Probably going to sell some fried chicken.
I love these vids, so much to learn from with regards to life in the past.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the guys who raced in the Cannon Ball Run during the early to mid 2000's went from NYC to LA in just over 24 hours!!! That was in their cars! But not nearly as glamorous.
You're not wrong. Of course, they had two drivers, only stopped for gas/bathroom breaks, and didn't particularly care about the speed limits. Many years ago, I drove from eastern Tennessee to my home in California with about 33 hours of actual "on the road" time, broken up over about 2 1/2 days.
Well, bear in mind that an SR-71 has done L.A. to Washington in 1 hour, 7 minutes.
More confidence in those Ford Trimotors than a 747 Max.
747 max?
@@paulazemeckis7835👍🏻 😄 f***ing autocorrect. Never even caught that. 😂
Think you might mean a 737 Max
If im gonna be honest this route seems more convoluted than simply taking a train to Chicago and changing to a train like the Chief.
02:44 - "And at exactly six - five P.M. the Airway Limited, first and only train of its kind in the world, with a direct airline connection, pulls out with its air minded guests."
Airheads?
It would be easy to take a train ,how many stops along the way .
LOL it takes 2 hours to fly 150 miles? thats insane. No wonder it took 15 hours to fly from LA to Hawaii, Planes maxed out at 250mph and flew about 500 feet off the ground.
wow
The same train and plane roster from west to east?
As I recall, pretty much, yes.
The train and plane thing didn't last very long. Once they had enough airports it was a plane all the way, but still the many small hops. Then the hops started to get longer and longer.
@@lwilton Better aircraft allowed them to fly over mountain ranges too....
And a train took about 2 days to cross the country back then .
I wonder if any of those pilots flew in WW2?
I'm sure they did. Lindbergh did, though not officially. He showed pilots in the south Pacific how to get more range out of their P-38s.
You could drive from Portland Maine to Los Angeles CA in 48 hours.
Not in the 1930s
@@oldninjarider I was saying today
@@kurtperleberg8669 dubious unless you're a cannonballer YMMV
You'd need to average about 70mph to do it. That excludes fuel stops, food stops, using the toilet, etc.
OK... lets see you do it..... no sleep...that would be a good effort. In 1919 it took a military convoy 56 days...lol
Those passengers were pretty rich…
Col. Atterbury shot himself in the foot on this idea. He and some of the other RR Presidents should have been looking at dedicated transcontinental high speed rail. The technology was there. In 6 years, the designs for the Penny duplexes, the fastest steam locos on earth, would be on the design boards. Where the mighty S-1 could be unleashed
The Indians didn't look very happy.
Teletypes!
I object
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lol "Colonel Lindberg"
Try looking it up and you may learn something.
@@lwilton the man was a Nazi sympathizer and received too much credit for what he did accomplish. In other words, His reputation was bigger than his skill
@@oldninjarider First across the Atlantic solo....what have YOU ever done that demonstrates he received "too much credit" for that? lol. Played a large personal role in promoting US air travel... (He made poor friends and choices before the war., thats true...but I suppose YOU are perfect and have never done anything you regret?) ..but did you know he provided valuable expert assistance to the US forces in the Pacific in WW2...and even flew (illegally) on combat missions?
@@oldninjarider Do you fly? I doubt it because if you did you wouldn't make such ignorant statements. You probably rely heavily on the GPS in your car ffs, lol.
@@jimmartin7881 do you understand Non-sequitur? Look at the facts he was an anti-semite and was distrusted even by Roosevelt. www.history.com/news/10-fascinating-facts-about-charles-lindbergh "As the United States edged closer to war, many began to denounce the former hero as an anti-Semite and a traitor. Lindbergh gave up his crusade and tried to win a commission in the military after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but President Roosevelt-who privately called the aviator a Nazi-barred him from serving." some hero.
Haaaaaa. White mans latest surprise ?? Haa. Funny
Lindy looked preoccupied..... maybe wondering who took his baby and where
the little brat was??..................................