by Ellen Kuhfeld » Tue Aug 16, 2022 10:36 am
My oh my, those two videos bring back memories! I was making rockets back in the late Fifties, though none of them were that large. Probably a good thing.
I've never ridden in a Connie. Boeing Stratocruiser, DC6, DC7, Convair CV-240, Lockheed Electra, Vickers Viscount ... I won't even try to list the jets. The most -interesting- flight I had was in a DC-6. We were descending toward Idlewild. There was a lightning storm in the distance, and the air was rough. So there I was, bouncing up and down along with the plane, looking out the window. There was lightning in the distance, lavender flames coming from the engines' exhausts, and the lights of New York below. It was beautiful. I liked the Stratocruiser. A two-story, civilian-modified B-29? What's not to like? And the Viscount took off like a scalded cat.