Pan Am

[B-J-J Fighter]

That is the truth, I remember my first cockpit visit in 1953, a EAL Connie, everyone was smoking, the cockpit was IFR on the inside.

LOL! Yip I bet your buddy regretted leaving Dal.

 

[dougdrvr]

The dude got hired at 18 at Pan Am??? 42 year career? For real?

I thought he said he was 23 when hired so it must have been 1980 when he retired. Fascinating stories, I shared a beer with him on many overnights. Sharp as a tack. Said many of the flying boat Pacific crossings would spend the first couple of hours just above the waves until they burned off enough fuel to climb.

 

[COOPERVANE]

A spy-stewardess? GMAFB.

Not saying it happened, but many of the storylines from the show are supposedly taken from actual Pan Am crewmembers who the writers interviewed. One Stewardess supposedly did act as a courier for the CIA and did plant devices in "persons of interest" luggage. Supposedly she slipped lsd into more than one suspect Russian spy's drink. Does that make her a "spy"? I don't know. She said some flight crew members were given the rank of 2nd lieutenant in case they were detained so that the geneva convention applied to them.

The producers said the writers couldn't make some of this stuff up.

 

[Uncle Bunkle]

Too bad HR doesn't make our new FA's step on the scale like they did in the show...

 

[JettBoii]

No kidding.

 

[Freebrd]

Too bad HR doesn't make our new FA's step on the scale like they did in the show...

An ugly scale would be cool too.

 

[Flyer1015]

Too bad HR doesn't make our new FA's step on the scale like they did in the show...

They don't not because of employment and labor laws, but because the scale itself doesn't go as high as what many FAs currently weigh.

 

[AutoTransfer]

Another beautiful takeoff....shared with a dude!

If I had a nickel for every time I've gazed across the center pedestal longingly into my FO's eyes grinning from ear to ear.......

 

[Freebrd]

If I had a nickel for every time I've gazed across the center pedestal longingly into my FO's eyes grinning from ear to ear.......

I bet that was JennyLeigh gazing into Oys-Yo-Yo's eyes, oh wait, never mind those two putz's are the same girl huh

 

[crxpilot]

How bout when the captain called Boston Center and asked them to contact Pan Am HQ to locate what happened to his lead purser Bridgette. I thought about asking Atlanta Center today what happened to my flight attendant but then I changed my mind......

 

[pilotyip]

LOL! Yip I bet your buddy regretted leaving Dal.

yea guys hired at that time were never laid off at DAL, lived the good life for their entire career. Not so much at Pam-Am

 

[Freebrd]

And the dork Capt giving the hot FA his wings, instead of a ring, but maybe wings meant more back then, who knew

 

[CX880]

So apparently the CA flew the airplane and did the radios back then? The F.O just joked around and spent time mostly in the back hitting on FAs.

 

[COOPERVANE]

So apparently the CA flew the airplane and did the radios back then? The F.O just joked around and spent time mostly in the back hitting on FAs.

I wonder if they are just pandering to what the public thinks anyway. The captain obviously flies the plane and lands it, and the other guy is a co-pilot there to take over if he dies. Also there to say "great landing boss"

I usually am the one to call atlanta center to ask them to call ASA ops to see why my flight attendant is late.

 

[dougdrvr]

Who's Douglas did they use? Was that the one from Oakland?

 

[pilotyip]

Who's Douglas did they use? Was that the one from Oakland?

I am gunna bet that it is the EAL DC-7 that hangs out in South FL. Not sure why they did the DC-6 thing, when Pam Am did operate DC-7's at that time. They needed a real pilot for a tech advisor.

 

[skidbuggy]

I love the flags on the ADI and HSI as they gave themselves the gay grins while pushing the power up for take off.

Oh yeah this show is a winner....

Im glad football is on the other channel.

 

[pilotyip]

I love the flags on the ADI and HSI as they gave themselves the gay grins while pushing the power up for take off.

Oh yeah this show is a winner....

Im glad football is on the other channel.

I like it, easy to swap channels and check scores,

 

[CX880]

The 707 had afterburners?

 

[dougdrvr]

The 707 had afterburners?

Looked like the old ,pathetically ineffective ,noise suppression to me.