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Tag Archives: 2001 A Space Odyssey
The Old Days in the Airlines
Oops! I should have published this last Tuesday, but made the mistake of not pressing the correct button on the blog control panel… So for your enjoyment today… ——————— Monday, I wrote about celebrating the near-end of working on our … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, History, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged 2001 A Space Odyssey, a Cuban sandwich at the Columbia, a time before Homeland Security and the TSA, America’s airline, aviation history, Eastern Airlines, Images of a Great Airline, Jamie Baldwin, National Airlines, old round dials in the cockpit, Pan American World Airways, PBA, round engines, smell the oil and the aviation fuel, Stanley Kubrick, the last line flying DC-3s, The Old Days in the Airlines, TWA
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Where is My Jetcar?
When the clocks ticked over from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000, everyone in the entire world collectively held their breath to see if all of the computers would crash. There had been a great deal written and published … Continue reading →
Posted in Life in General, Personal
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Tagged 2001 A Space Odyssey, airplanes, Apollo, baby-boomers, Bones, Captain Kirk, code writers, computers, December 31 1999, flying, flying cars, Gemini, Gene Roddenberry, George Jetson, Global Positioning Satellites, hardware, internal clocks, January 1 2000, Jetcar, John Young, Michael Collins, New Year’s Eve, old-fashioned, recognizing the year 2000, Saturday morning cartoons, Scottie, software, Spock, Stanley Kubrick, Star Trek, the end of the world, the last Gemini mission, the moon, the New Millennium, the Starship USS enterprise, this perspective, turn of the century, Where is My Jetcar?
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Happy Birthday, Pan Am
Today in 1927, Key West birthed Pan American World Airways out of a small maintenance hangar near Duval Street in Key West. Kelly McGillis, the actress who co-starred with Tom Cruise in Top Gun, presently owns the building purportedly to be the … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying, History, Life in General
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Tagged 2001 A Space Odyssey, airplanes, Boeing 747, Clipper flying boats, Clipper Juan T. Trippe, Duval Street, flying, Fokker monoplanes, Happy Birthday Pan Am, Havana Cuba, Juan Trippe, Kelly McGillis, Key West, Lockerbie Scotland, Pan Am, Pan Am 103, Pan Am 73, Pan American Airways, Pan American World Airways, pilots, professional pilots, SCADTA, Stanley Kubric, Tenerife, the first Boeing 747 to carry passengers, the unofficial flagship airlines of the United States, the worst aviation accident in history, Top Gun, William Allen, World War II
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