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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 08/21/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: wingspan, Planelopnik

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The American Airlines Douglas DC-3 Flagship Indianapolis gets its tanks topped off at Indianapolis in 1946.

It’s Friday, Oppo, so let’s gas up and fly into the weekend.

In the mid-1930s, America Airlines convinced Donald Douglas to develop the DC-3 and DC-3 Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST). These aircraft, which American dubbed Flagships, soon connected the entire country east to west. The promotional film Flagships of the Air was made to drum up business by extolling the benefits of time savings and comfort that modern aircraft provided: passenger cabins with cooled or heated air pumped in before takeoff, forty pounds of luggage per passenger, and overnight flights from New York to Los Angeles via Dallas, and dazzling views of the country from an unpressurized altitude of about 10,000 feet. But the film wasn’t just about selling tickets. It also educated Americans on how commercial aviation made the country smaller at a time when airline travel was still relatively new but was also starting to, well, take off. The film is pretty corny, and sometimes cringingly sexist by today’s standards, but it nevertheless provides an interesting look at the early days of commercial aviation.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 08/21/2020 at 09:17

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Found this yesterday on their FB page.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 08/21/2020 at 09:18

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What you call:

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I call, “nostalgia for the well-defined gender roles of our past”.’

By the way, any guesses on what, in 2020 dollars, a ticket from Idyllwild to Grand Central Terminal in Los Angeles would have cost back then?

ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 08/21/2020 at 10:05

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Love that retro silver livery. And don’t forget the Salmon Thirty Salmon.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 08/21/2020 at 10:06

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I don’t know, but dude in the movie pulled out his wallet and was getting ready to pay cash for it. 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 08/21/2020 at 10:24

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I’ve see the salmon thirty salmon several times at SEATAC, and they also have the 12 man plane with that football guy that is kinda weird , I’ve flown on that one. And how much did they luck out by buying all 737-900's and not MAX jets then inheriting a fleet of Airbus... A320's.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 08/21/2020 at 10:34

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Found this link:

https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/history-of-flight-costs

According to the source, it cost about 10x more (adjusted for inflation) to fly coast to coast than it does now. Of course, the source for that data is airlines.org, which appears to a site whose raison d’être is to espouse the virtues of deregulation.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 08/21/2020 at 12:00

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That flyer reminds me of when people used to dress to fly, in stead of fall out of bed and into an aisle seat.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 08/21/2020 at 12:07

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On the other hand, men wore suits and women wore dresses every day. But the ladies also broke out the hats and gloves, and the children got a bath and nice clothes to wear. I do not wear shorts on a plane. I don’t want my skin to come in contact with those seat cushions. 

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 08/21/2020 at 12:37

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Good idea, considering how many other sweaty thighs likely did before yours.