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Brains_N_Boobs said:
https://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/daily_picdump-49-4.jpg
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WOW, that's a LOT of speed tape. It was probably being used to cover some hail damage. I seriously doubt that this is a revenue flight as the FAA is extremely strict on how much tape can be used and judging by this picture, their allowance has been exceeded.

This is probably a "ferry" flight where the airline is flying it to a location where the mechanics are so that it can be fixed.
 
Not rated to anything at all but one of the prettiest airliners has got to be the Super Constellation for me. Whats yours?
 
lazy_literotic said:
way back used the connie to fly back and forth from Taiwan to Japan, Tokyo.
I thought the plane was sooo cool - I always sat by the window where I could watch those engines start.
it was flying tiger airlines.
I think it was started by the famed aviators of ww2.
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The company was started by Robert William Prescott.[1] It was headquartered on the grounds of Los Angeles International Airport in Westchester, Los Angeles, California.[2]

The airline was named after the Flying Tigers fighter unit of World War II, officially the 1st American Volunteer Group. Ten former AVG pilots, after returning to the United States in 1945, formed the Flying Tiger Line established on 24 June 1945 as National Freight Service known under the name of National Skyway Freight using a small fleet of 14 Budd Conestoga freighters purchased as war surplus from the United States Navy.[3][4] The pilots and two ground crew provided half of the initial investment, with the balance coming from California oil tycoon Samuel B. Mosher.[5] For the next four years, Flying Tiger Line carried air freight on contract throughout the U.S. and, as the airline expanded, carrying supplies to U.S. troops under Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the occupation of Japan.[5]

In 1949, the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded Flying Tiger Line the first commercial air cargo route in the U.S., a transcontinental route from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California to Boston, Massachusetts. Shortly afterward, the company began chartering passenger aircraft for group travel as well; its Lockheed Super Constellation, Douglas DC-4 and DC-6 fleet comprised the largest trans-Atlantic charter operation through the 1950s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tiger_Line

it was eventually bought by FedEx some years ago

Then-CEO Stephen Wolf sold Flying Tigers to Federal Express in December 1988. On August 7, 1989, Federal Express merged Flying Tigers into its operations
 
^^^^^^^^^^^
Of course they were long before 'Star wars' but were the 'X' wing fighters of the film influenced by the SR71? There are some similarities. Was SR71 known publicly then (1977)?
 
https://64.media.tumblr.com/f63c29ef67c4c72824739af2a26c3f4e/tumblr_p3ok99Rc5s1u87v54o1_640.jpg

USS Valley Forge (CV-45) crewmen use flight deck tractors with power brooms to sweep snow from the carrier’s flight deck, during operations off Korea, circa early 1951. Photo is dated 8 May 1951, but Valley Forge ended her second Korean War deployment in late March of that year. Plane parked in the foreground is a F4U-4 Corsair fighter. Those on the forward flight deck are an AD Skyraider attack plane and a HO3S helicopter. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
 
My father, before being old enough to join the British army in WW2 and land at Normandy, worked at Short Brothers near Chatham on the Thames south of London. Here he did rivetting on the Short Stirling 4 engined bomber and I believe Sunderland flying boats like the above. Shorts had extensive experience with civil flying boats in the 30's.
 
Dreamliner said:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/f63c29ef67c4c72824739af2a26c3f4e/tumblr_p3ok99Rc5s1u87v54o1_640.jpg

USS Valley Forge (CV-45) crewmen use flight deck tractors with power brooms to sweep snow from the carrier’s flight deck, during operations off Korea, circa early 1951. Photo is dated 8 May 1951, but Valley Forge ended her second Korean War deployment in late March of that year. Plane parked in the foreground is a F4U-4 Corsair fighter. Those on the forward flight deck are an AD Skyraider attack plane and a HO3S helicopter. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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You can also see that snow is covering the airplanes - cockpit canopies and wings. This was way before we knew what ice/snow did to the aerodynamics of the wings. (However, it wasn't as much of a problem in straight wing design and low speeds as it is in swept wing and high Mach numbers.)
 
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