The smokestacks around the field back then could easily spell disaster.

This view of Boeing’s 221A “Monomail” and P-12 illustrates how quickly aviation technology was advancing in the 1930’s – and things were just getting started.

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This aircraft, 18601, will enter service as Pan Am’s “Honolulu Clipper.”

Pictured are 80A and 80B. The 80A had an enclosed cockpit, the B model was open-air. You’d have thought it would be the other way around. Perhaps there were issues with cockpit visibility.

This aircraft began life as a USAAF C-54 (42-72281). Picked up by United after the war, it began life anew as a cargo hauler until being sold off in 1957.

… Once comfortably seated, take out a Chesterfield, and said stewardess will fire it up. Such was life in a Boeing 307 Stratocruiser in 1940.

This aircraft was lost with all aboard following an inflight collision with a Cessna 310, 19 July, 1967.

727s for everybody: United, TWA, Eastern, South Africa, and American. My dad logged some hours flying N7037U in the foreground. “Rocketship,” he called the ’27.

KLM has always done the Netherlands proud, and this was especially so when they flew the Connie back in the day.

 

Her Majesty Queen Virginia Rothenberg and Her Court posing with a Northwest Airlines DC-3. Check out the paint job both on the cars and the aircraft.

“Clipper Gladiator.” Who the hell was the genius who invented these names? Whoever he was, he was not paid enough. Taken on the ramp at Renton, WA in early 1963. The noseless KC-135 above it, 62-3538, is still flying today.

 

My dad, a retired UAL pilot, has (according to his log book) many hours in this particular aircraft.

Aircraft is on a westerly heading over Whidbey Island. The seaplane base of NAS Whidbey Island is on the peninsula top right.

The view is looking south into the USA. Fraser River (Canada) below, San Juan Islands (USA) in distance.