Ok Bruce,

My passengers are having supper in pressurized air conditioned comfort.
Notice the smooth Jetstream TWA -300 heading for Milan with a full load.
You can see some of the window shades are closed, but most folks are enjoying the caviar and frozen Vodka along with the great selection of quality single barrel Bourbons that gladly accept a cherry and a bit of sweet vermouth. Ahhhhh air travel!    



Old days ONLY... new passengers need not apply!  

Lou

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btscott wrote on Aug 24^th, 2011 at 2:53am:

To get the Nav Lights and Beacon working again, I had to uninstall the 707, delete the CS_B707-300 folder and all its contents (because I had added additional liveries) then reinstall it.

Mark

Bruce, FC on the 707 and later the 747 was a wonderful experience. Each passenger had a welcome card at their seat with a flower. You were given a drink of your choice, usually champagne. After takeoff, the F/A's would come around with a cart with smoked salmon, finely chopped onions, capers, egg yoke, caviar, little toasts and vodka very cold in a block of ice. Latter, for dinner, the F/A's would cook the food to order. A cart with a Chateau of filet minion, small crisp potatoes and an assortment of veggies along with a selection of fine wine and followed with some wonderful deserts. Then, after dinner liquors.  Ahhhhh, those were the day my friend......

Lou --- I just don't remember that level of food service (the caviar and frozen vodka). I do remember Chateau Briand and the flower kind of rings a bell though. I'm sure I did experience it though. I had some very good fiends in sales here and rode your airplanes at least half dozen times a year in F/CL. I remember Peter Sellers was a spokesman for TWA and he was on one of those travel agent fam trip flights to LHR. I still have my Lifetime TWA Ambassador Club card! A TWA flight attendant introduced me to the French Connection (after dinner drink) on the way back from Athens one time. It's one part Amaretto and two parts cognac. Magnificent! Sipped on them all the way to DEN--- including the layover in the JFK Ambassador's Club! Here's a picture of me and my buddy Steve who was the TWA Sales Manager in Denver. We're in the DEN Ambassador's Club getting ready to go somewhere.



Right now I'm 295 miles out of SFO, inbound from HNL. Had a yaw damper problem for quite some time and could not find a switch. Got it smoothed out finally though -- I think. Gotta re-file the IFR and check in with Oakland Center pretty soon.

Mark -- yes I've installed liveries hundred's of times. I may just have to re-install the 707.

Bruce

Ooooh, the good old days are gone!! I went from Pan Am to running a large travel agency and my wife was a CO Golden Jet Desk Agent. We had the world at our feet. Didn't make any real money, but we lived like millionaires for 25 years! Went everywhere almost free. You wouldn't dare non-rev anywhere today. It might take 3 days to get to the coast!

Here's a couple pictures of bachelor party trip to MZT on a MX 727. TWA Steve was marrying his TWA flt attendant fiance and a bunch of us travel agents and airline folks kidnapped him from his office and took him to MZT for a 3 day weekend party. Doug Brown, the MX DEN Sales Mgr, blocked about 12 seats in the rear of a Fri non-stop DEN/MZT and, with the permission of his boss, we literally picked Steve up at the TWA Stapleton Sales Office and carried him onto the ac. His fiance delivered a packed bag and Doug had already check it in! Doug is the guy looking back over the top of the seat. Graeme Seaton, the guy on the left of Steve, was the Pan Am DSM in DEN at the time. I took the picture. It was wild times in the 70s! Just magical!



Bruce

Yeah, Mark, it was amazing throughout the 60s, 70s,and 80s. One time 6 of us met for lunch here in DEN on a Friday and ended up in Las Vegas for the weekend!

If you were in the travel business, in management, and well connected, there were limitless travel opportunities---- and all but free. Not much of that going on today.

Bruce

Lou --- Your dog doesn't look like he's having much fun!! Is that a *Freight Dog*?  

Would ya look at the hair on the Stews!! The one on the left looks exactly like Joan (forgot her maiden name) Steve's wife! I am going to send that pic to her! Wow, memories galore!

I gave up on the PA RTW video. I got all the way to SFO from HNL and my computer rebelled and crashed because I had the scenery turned up too high. Second attempt and the 707 auto pilot (operator) didn't work properly for localizer intercept plus way too much stuttering. On the third attempt when the glide slope engaged the ac did a nose dive for the ground. On both occasions I was able to disconnect and get on the ground, but the replays were so bad looking no amount of editing would have produced decent film clips. Lou, the real airplane must have been easier to hand fly smoothly than this darn computer sim!! Three whole days down the drain.

From a TWA and Epirotiki Cruise Lines travel agent familiarization cruise in the Greek Islands circa 1978! Santorini is the port of call.





Bruce