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Boeing 707-100 (N702PA)
Pan American's "Clipper Hotspur" (N702PA, a Boeing 707) is seen in this scan of a 47-year-old Polaroid snapshot as passengers are boarding at Fiumicino-Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (Rome, Italy) for a flight to Ankara, Turkey.
I did the very best editing that I could with this photo. It was taken on a Polaroid camera, and this print is almost a half-century old. Anyone who knows about Polaroid pictures knows they printed instantly. To still have any type of image at all after 47 years of exposure to light is rather amazing. This is a color picture, but it was so badly faded and color-distorted that I finally gave up on trying to salvage it as a color photo and I simply converted it to black & white.
I snapped this picture in March or April of 1969 at Rome (Italy) Fiumicino International Airport. This was a stop on my PAA flight from New York to Ankara (Turkey) while I was enroute to my first duty assignment in Trabzon, Turkey.
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Near my old hometown we've had an russian airbase. There where Mig 19 and Mig 21. I will never forget the Sound of an Mig 21 engine. Soft like the new engine of the Dreamliner.And often the Supersonic Booms of this Jets. Fantastic!!
50 jears away.
** (I'm not 100% certain, but I think that even these early model 707s were retrofitted with taller/large tails and the ventrals were removed during the retrofits. Once again, I am not totally sure of this info.)
Uwe, did you ever meet Mathias (another FA member)? He also lived / lives in E. Germany. I honestly wish I could meet both of you. So much history we could learn from each other.
Now I've never meet Matrhias, but iknow him from FA. He lives in "East Germany " near my old hometown. My old hometown is betwwen the cities Halle and Magdeburg.
If you ha ve a look to Flightradar or Google Earth you can see my old hometown. Have a look for the International Airport Magdeburg-Cochstedt CSO/EDBC. This was till the 90th the russian airbase. Have a look 15 miles around this Airport. You can see the City named " Hettstedt ". this was my hometown till 1990. After reunion Germany i was going to " West Germany". Now i'm living near, 25 km ,from Frankfurt. FRA/EDDF. in a Little town called " Hainstadt".
"British certification requirements relating to engine-out go-arounds also forced Boeing to increase the height of the tail fin on all 707 variants, as well as add a ventral fin, which was retrofitted on earlier −120 and −220 aircraft. These modifications also aided in the mitigation of dutch roll by providing more stability in yaw."
When I was born, my first home was in a city named Tonawanda (between Buffalo and Niagara Falls) in New York State. Bell Aircraft and Curtis-Wright had aircraft factories nearby, but by the time I joined the USAF in 1968 and left my hometown, those factories were closed or closing and abandoning the Buffalo area.
Hey, Thanks, Sam. :-) I appreciate the info. (Thumbs Up)
Lovely sound from those four engines at take off
Thanks
Mark ... Nope, he was not CIA; he was USAF. Trabzon AS (Air Station) existed for the very reason he stated. The last American military left in 1970 and Trab was fully turned over to the host country.
WHAT WAS YOUR JOB IN USAF I WAS IN TEXAS WITH THE 433RD AMXS AND ALSO IN HOMESTEAD...
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Date | Avion | Provenance | Destination | Départ | Arrivée | Durée |
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19-04-2024 | C208 | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | 14h51 EDT | 16h35 EDT | 1:43 |
19-04-2024 | C208 | Wayne County (KBJJ) | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | 13h49 EDT | 13h56 EDT | 0:07 |
19-04-2024 | C208 | Lovell Fld (KCHA) | Wayne County (KBJJ) | 09h42 EDT | 12h09 EDT | 2:26 |
19-04-2024 | C208 | Lovell Fld (KCHA) | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | 09h42 EDT | Dérouté | |
19-04-2024 | C208 | Trenton Mercer (KTTN) | Lovell Fld (KCHA) | 04h30 EDT | 08h45 EDT | 4:15 |
19-04-2024 | C208 | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | Trenton Mercer (KTTN) | 02h02 EDT | 03h51 EDT | 1:48 |
15-04-2024 | C208 | Lancaster (KLNS) | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | 22h03 EDT | 00h04 EDT (+1) | 2:01 |
15-04-2024 | C208 | Neil Armstrong (KAXV) | Lancaster (KLNS) | 19h12 EDT | 21h07 EDT | 1:55 |
15-04-2024 | C208 | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | Neil Armstrong (KAXV) | 17h19 EDT | 18h12 EDT | 0:53 |
15-04-2024 | C208 | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | 11h21 EDT | 13h13 EDT | 1:52 |
09-04-2024 | C208 | Erie Intl/Tom Ridge Fld (KERI) | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | 13h15 EDT | 14h43 EDT | 1:27 |
09-04-2024 | C208 | Hamilton/John C. Munro Int'l (CYHM) | Erie Intl/Tom Ridge Fld (KERI) | 12h13 EDT | 12h44 EDT | 0:31 |
09-04-2024 | C208 | James M Cox Dayton Intl (KDAY) | Hamilton/John C. Munro Int'l (CYHM) | 09h18 EDT | 10h48 EDT | 1:29 |
09-04-2024 | C208 | Stoltzfus Airfield (OH22) | James M Cox Dayton Intl (KDAY) | 06h32 EDT | 07h28 EDT | 0:55 |
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