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Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:06 pm

1950s GA Clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFFRS8A0rpQ
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Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:21 pm

That is amazing rare footage of the Aero-Channel plane! I am aware of only one still in exsistence!

It is funny that most parts of the video could be filmed exactly the same with the same planes today! Ahhhh...how far we have come!
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Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:51 pm

Neat video.
Ah..... the good ole days of aviation. Some neat planes in that video. And $500 to get certified! :wink:
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Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:11 pm

That is pure gold. Great find!
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Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:34 pm

Wool suit, fedora and wingtips -- now that's some stylish flying!

Isn't it amazing that we're flying the same exact airplanes as they were then, and doing it essentially the exact same way?

Awesome find. Thanks!
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Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:43 pm

Oregon180 wrote:Wool suit, fedora and wingtips -- now that's some stylish flying!

Isn't it amazing that we're flying the same exact airplanes as they were then, and doing it essentially the exact same way?


Some of us still dress up like that to fly!!!! :roll:

I don't know about you guys, but it'll be a cold day somewhere before I fly an airplane using a handheld microphone, and try and listen to an overhead speaker ever again. And can you say, "No moving map GPS? No XM Weather?" Not me. I'm too spoiled to ever go back. I paid my whiskey compass and ADF dues tenfold, and I don't miss that shit at all.

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Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:59 pm

If anyone is curious, I figured out that $500 in 1953 is equivalent to $4,000 today in terms of purchasing power, so getting a private wasn't really that much cheaper back then.
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Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:09 pm

VERY cool. Love looking at all those old birds.
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Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:44 pm

Whaddya mean? No more Superhomer with "whistle stop tuning"????
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