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| Here's Installment Nbr 2 for my Aviation Eye Candy. Man, I've got a lot of pictures! If you missed Eye Candy One - you can find it here. I'm trying - for the most part - to make these a random walk down the aviation trail - with some old, some new, military, civil; big iron and small airplanes. I'm trying to shuffle the deck so there's always something new and maybe unexpected. Mostly, I leave them uncaptioned so you can enjoy the images without a lot of data, but I do make exceptions. There may be some dupes, I have so many pix in the air, I can easily repeat one. Like Spearmint gum, Double your Pleasure, Double your Fun. I've received quite a few nice comments - I may make a page with them. Kudos keep me going, so don't be shy. If you have specific questions about date and place, I can usually dig out the info.  Might as well start out with my Baby - NASA 515  Orcas Island  A V.I.P. World Cruiser 707 at PAE  AC Viscount at YVR "Bob, isn't the Terminal on the other side? What are you doing out there on the ramp???" Some Aloha Photos I spent 6+ years as the Boeing Field Rep with Aloha Airlines in Honolulu. I have a humongous webpage planned for that assignment - someday.... Meanwhile, here are a few pictures.  Kona  Aloha 737 N73711 at Kona N73711 lost its top on 28 April 1988  I have a whole web page coming (some day) on that event. As Paul Harvey used to say - "The REST of the story." Only one fatality (Aloha's first and only) - Flight Attendant standing in the aisle. Tough airplane.  Landing at Molokai -- PHMK Runway 5 = 4494 feet long X 100 feet wide   Gate 1 - the only Gate  Departing Runway 5  Father Damien's former Leper Colony  Nordair I spent 4 years as the Boeing Field Rep with Nordair in Montreal. I have another Super Humongous webpage planned for that as well. They flew pax charters to the Caribbean on weekends, but during the week, it was to the Arctic. Here's what a REAL Working Airplane looks like. No - not like this....  But like this!  Churchill Falls  Raglan Lake?  Deception Bay  Churchill Falls, Labrador ********* Great Whale River (CYGW) on Hudson Bay 5000 foot gravel strip - snow and ice covered NO Reverse! (After a few years Reverse was allowed.)  What greeted me when I opened the forward cabin door! Yup - no Jetway. No Boarding Lounge either.  Stand clear of the engine intakes, please! Arrival of the plane was a Big Deal  Great Whale - Poste de la Baleine (in French) currently Kuujjuarapik   Baggage Claim at Great Whale is sort of more.... er, hands on. What! No baggage carousels? See the Papoose in the red blanket? *******  Me - Bob Bogash - up North - Deception Bay? Skinny tie. Skinny me.  Fort Chimo It's called Kuujjuaq these days. Most of the northern places have new (old) names.  If you want to read an interesting story about a "great adventure" I had in Fort Chimo - click here   Some of the strips were more "challenging" than others.....  In a Boeing Rep's Tool Kit - a Shovel. Not exactly like O'Hare....  Damn! Stuck at Great Whale .... Again! BTW - this is in the middle of (what they call) the Runway. *********  Captain Red Martindale using an Astrocompass to navigate our Nordair 737 in the High Arctic No GPS, no Omega, no VOR's - no nuthin' Shoot sunlines and use an ephemeris  Me and Red at Nanasivik, northern Baffin Island Red kept this photo on his wall in later years and he'd look at it and call me and we'd reminisce. And sometimes we'd cry. When he passed, his family used it for his Obit.  Got this on my first ride with Red up to Never, Never Land. It was in the Super Connie CF-NAL  NAL at Fort Chimo - Nov 14, 1968 In two weeks, the first 737 would arrive marking the end of Nordair's 4 Super Connies I cherish our many hours together - even in the Super Connie! Red was a wonderful pilot - a "Natural" pilot.  R.I.P., Red - you were a great friend, and I miss you - a lot. *********  Often my flying was in a DC-4 (C-54) - especially CF-IQM Repeat after me: "I Love IQM, I Love IQM, I Love IQM...." Click for IQM Story  "I'm sorry, Sir, this is not a Dinner Flight" "...and no, there definitely is No movie...."  At Fort Chimo Herman Nelson's heating the engines. Check. Ski's installed and inspected. Check. "Yes, Sir, your connecting flight is almost ready to board."  YVR - CPA's one and only 707. (It crashed trying to land at YVR in fog.)   Boeing 247 and E1 - 727 Prototype Both were soon to make historic Last Flights from PAE to Boeing Field    Boeing Model 40 and Douglas DC-2 .... a photograph never to be repeated.... Flew in both of them!  Addison Pemberton's Model 40 Click for Story   with the DC-2 - the last flying DC-2 (Story here).  Her last landing - flown by Gene Vezzetti - me in the Right Seat Runway 13R - BFI - 9 July 2015  Pair of PSA Electra's at Oakland   Ben Ellison's Goeyduck    UAL 787 I took this shot from pilot's seat of E1 (a P.R. Photo shoot).    727 Prototype E1 - under final restoration at Paine Field   Finn Taylor doing a Hansville Fly-by   B-29 FiFi at Renton  Cockpit     Boeing Guppy just landed at PAE I'm blocking the Alpha doing engine runs in 727 E1  Waiting in my airplane for the Guppy   My little bird shows up at the most unlikely places!  C-141 at BFI      Hangar neighbor Jim Piper's Carbon Cub    727 Prototype E1 - in a hangar for the first time in 25 years   Boeing 727 Prototype after Last Landing at Boeing Field - 2 Mar 2016   Finals for Runway 14R at Boeing Field  Race 'ya to the Field?   A Fly-by from my Hansville Living Room windows  Herk at BFI  My RV-12 N737G and Museum B-47    The Oldest flying CH-47 Chinook in the U.S. Army  C-123 1960   Bell 47 - to the tune Suicide is Painless from M*A*S*H*  USN P-3C   EAA B-17G at BFI   WAL 720B departing HNL  First 787-10  RAF Nimrod    Beech Staggerwing I think I better quit here and start on Eye Candy #3..... Enjoy! Airport, Airline, Photo Index Page |
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