"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
04/20/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: good morning oppo, wingspan, Planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
04/20/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: good morning oppo, wingspan, Planelopnik | 4
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(RuthAS)
Happy Monday, Oppo.
Southern Airways !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! at Atlanta Airport in 1972. Southern Airways was the last mainline US carrier to fly a piston airliner when it retired the 4-0-4 in 1978.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> ttyymmnn
04/20/2020 at 09:20 |
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InFierority Complex
> ttyymmnn
04/20/2020 at 09:21 |
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4-0-4 Not Found after 1978. Got it.
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ttyymmnn
> InFierority Complex
04/20/2020 at 09:33 |
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Ha! That’s good. Thanks. I needed a laugh this morning.
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ttyymmnn
> pip bip - choose Corrour
04/20/2020 at 09:37 |
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https://simpleflying.com/virgin-australia-administration/
https://simpleflying.com/branson-offers-caribbean-island-to-save-virgin-atlantic/
user314
> ttyymmnn
04/20/2020 at 09:41 |
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Southern Airways didn’t last much past the 4-0-4, m erging with North Central Airlines in ‘79 to form Republic Airlines , which was purchased in 1986 by Northwest Orient Airlines (which dropped ‘Orient’ in the process), which went bankrupt in 2005, reorganized , and was purchased by Delta in ‘08.
Ash78, voting early and often
> user314
04/20/2020 at 09:57 |
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I honestly just forgot that NWA ceased to exist, for some reason in my head they were still around.
STRAIGHT OUTTA....LIQUIDITY!
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user314
> Ash78, voting early and often
04/20/2020 at 10:14 |
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I remembered them merging out, but was fuzzy on the ‘when’. 2008 seems so much more recent than it actually is....
jminer
> ttyymmnn
04/20/2020 at 10:15 |
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Good Morning! I seriously love the classic airframe pictures we get from you in the mornings.
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ttyymmnn
> jminer
04/20/2020 at 10:36 |
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Thanks. There’s a well-known (at least inside the aviation community) photographer named Bill Larkins who started out as an USAAF photographer during WWII and then continued taking pictures his whole life. His library is beyond extraordinary. When I was looking for photos for TDIAH, I kept coming across photos credited to him, and at first I thought there was no way one guy could have taken all these photos, it must be some guy’s collection. Nope, he took them all. I’ve been spending hours trolling through his Flickr feed . I use it as aircraft recognition practice, and oftentimes for these morning photos.
This picture actually came from Wikipedia, taken by another prolific photographer known as RuthAS. I came across it when I was looking at the 4-0-4 and trying to learn how to tell it apart from the very similar Convair 240 series. Using a couple of Larkins’ photos, I put this together. The Convair is on top.
WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
> ttyymmnn
04/20/2020 at 10:57 |
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Wouldn’t that plane be insanely loud for the passengers?
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ttyymmnn
> WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
04/20/2020 at 10:59 |
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Well, the 2-0-2 that preceded it wasn’t pressurized, the wings had a nasty tendency to fall off. The 4-0-4 was pressurized, and had more noise insulation. I’ve never flown on one, but I would be that they were still pretty loud, especially in the front row of the cabin.
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WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
> ttyymmnn
04/20/2020 at 11:10 |
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I guess that’s why they invented those noise cancelling headphones.