Keep Oppo 307

"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired) 08/28/2015 at 01:20 • Filed to: None

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Sneaky Pete > someassemblyrequired 08/28/2015 at 02:24

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Love bare metal skin aeroplanes.

facw > someassemblyrequired 08/28/2015 at 03:12

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So the first try to get the 307 to the Smithsonian went poorly:

They would have been better off with the other survivor:

facw > Sneaky Pete 08/28/2015 at 03:12

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Yeah, it looks great after restoration. Is was painted at one point though:

ptak appreciates old racecars > someassemblyrequired 08/28/2015 at 04:54

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Mmm yes.

Chuckybas > someassemblyrequired 08/28/2015 at 10:56

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Where was this taken?

someassemblyrequired > Chuckybas 08/28/2015 at 11:48

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Museum of Flight in Seattle had an open house to show it off after its second restoration. This is back from 2003. I probably have more pictures - it was a pretty cool event, Pan Am was big in Seattle, so they had a bunch of Pan Am flight attendants with all the old uniforms on answering questions and talking about working for Pan Am as you waited to see the plane. I see why many of them went on to careers in the diplomatic field and um other government agencies with um foreign operations.

someassemblyrequired > facw 08/28/2015 at 12:02

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Yeah that was definitely an ironic turn of events. The other one probably deserves to be in the Smithsonian too as it apparently still has it’s Raymond Loewy interior from when it was owned by Howard Hughes. I was talking to some of the guys that worked on it both times, and they said that when it happened they pretty much weren’t going to let a little thing like that stop them from getting it to DC.

Chuckybas > someassemblyrequired 08/28/2015 at 14:21

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Are you saying hospitality sure seemed better back then?

someassemblyrequired > Chuckybas 08/28/2015 at 16:38

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Sure am - I don’t think it would be the same today though - the only reason it happened back then was that being a Pan Am F/A was a glamorous job and a way to see the world for free when a lot of career paths weren’t open to everyone. Given the way they handled the crowd, that you had to speak at least two languages, and hold a university degree, these are folks that today could have any job they wanted, and it’s more than likely that the job would pay 6 figures and wouldn’t involve slinging Cokes from a drink cart.