'Here You Go Willy'

Climb check complete, time for a chesterfield! :costumes:

Amazing how he shut down three engines. That was pretty cool.

(Good thing they didn't shut off the last one, they'd be up there all day!)
 
Chesterfields (and other brands) used to come in C Rations.

"Smoke 'em if ya got 'em!"

Or for the Navy crowd:

"The smoking lamp is now lit."

Pretty neat footage of what was arguably the sleekest airline with propellers on it.
 
Thanks P!

For those that missed it at the start of the first video, the guy in the brown suit they called "Captain Eddie" was Eddie Rickenbacher, WWI ace and President of Eastern Airlines back then.

Gotta love those old propliners!
 
Ah, the good old days. Were they really that good? Sure looked like it.
I knew Mr. Godfrey was a pilot but didn't know he was an airline pilot.
Curt
 
:applause::applause:

Me and my folks flew on Connies when I was young..My dad smoked like a chimney,and as soon as the *No Smoking* sign was off,he smoked for hours till we got to our destination...

Twice I was taken into the cockpit to look around..As a kid it might as well have been a space ship..I was memriozided,and have loved planes ever since....

Fantastic videos.....:ernae:
 
I actually saw that film when I was an employee of the Great Silver Fleet. No, not when it was current,:costumes: but as an item from the archives. Still have some fond memories of my time with EAL. Actually participated in the liquidation process in KATL for a year after she drew her last commercial breath.

Great find P ~ thanks loads for sharing it.

LDF
 
OK, I gotta add my two bits!
First, thanks to Panther for the very cool videos; I've passed them on to all the "old birdmen" on my list.
Second: "Amazing how he shut down three engines. That was pretty cool."
You're all too young to know it, but that was a BIG selling point for the Connie and Super Connie. Eastern even had a postcard of a 749 Connie with only #4 running. Ah, airline postcards in the pocket of the seat in front of you. Bet you don't remember those either.:icon_lol: I have over 180 hours on EAL's Super C's and on a visit to the cockpit, remember seeing a snub-nosed revolver in a holster hanging behind the left seat.
- H52
 
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