Airport names article

[Kharma Police]

Interesting article from CNN about who some of our airports are named after.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/15/travel/airport-namesakes/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

 

[densoo]

Interesting article from CNN about who some of our airports are named after.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/15/travel/airport-namesakes/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

Thanks for posting this. Interesting history.

 

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Pretty cool.

 

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Which airport in Chicago is gonna be named after dear leader barry obamamessiah, ORD or MDW? Hope neither one.

 

[DUBLINFLYER]

What about OGG (Maui)- Captain Richard N Ogg, Pan Am

Flight 6 (registration N90943, and sometimes erroneously called Flight 943) was an around-the-world airline flight that ditched in the Pacific Ocean on October 16, 1956, after two of its four engines failed.
Flight 6 was scheduled to leave Philadelphia as a DC-6B and fly east around the globe with many stops (and a change to a Boeing aircraft at Tokyo) to San Francisco International Airport. On the evening of October 15, 1956 the departure from Honolulu was on Boeing 377 Stratocruiser "Clipper Sovereign Of The Skies" (Pan Am fleet number 943, registered N90943). The accident was the basis for the 1958 film "Crash Landing".


Accident details

The aircraft took off from Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, at 8:26 p.m. HST on the flight's last leg to San Francisco. After passing the point of equal time, the flight received permission to climb to an altitude of 21,000 ft. When that altitude was reached, the No. 1 engine began to overspeed as power was reduced. The First Officer, who was flying the plane, immediately slowed the plane by further reducing power and by extending the flaps, and an attempt was made to feather the propeller. The propeller would not feather and the engine continued to turn at excessive RPM. The captain decided to cut off the oil supply to the engine. Eventually, the RPM declined and the engine seized. The propeller continued to windmill in the air stream, causing excessive drag that increased the fuel consumption. As a result, the plane was forced to fly much slower, below 150 knots, and lost altitude at the rate of 1,000 feet per minute. Climb power was set on the remaining three engines to slow the rate of descent. The No. 4 engine then began to fail and soon was producing only partial power at full throttle. At 2:45 a.m. the No. 4 engine began to backfire, forcing the crew to shut it down and feather the propeller.

The crew calculated the added drag left them with insufficient fuel to reach San Francisco or to return to Honolulu. In the 1950s the United States Coast Guard maintained a ship at Ocean Station November between Hawaii and the California coast. On that night, the ship was the USCGC Pontchartrain. The plane flew to the Pontchartrain's location, leveled off at 2,000 feet, and circled until daylight on the two remaining engines.
The captain decided to wait for daylight, since it was important to keep the wings level with the ocean swells at the ditching impact. As fuel burned off while the plane circled the Coast Guard cutter, the plane was able to climb from 2,000 feet to 5,000 feet. At that altitude several practice approaches were made to see that the plane would be controllable at low speed (the goal was to have the lowest speed possible, just before touching the water). Delaying ditching until daylight also made the plane lighter so it would float longer.
Aware of the Pan Am Flight 845/26 accident the year before, in which a Boeing 377's tail section had broken off during a water landing, the captain told the flight's purser to clear passengers from the back of the plane. The crew removed loose objects from the cabin, and prepared the passengers for the landing. As on other flights in the era, small children were allowed on their parents' laps, without separate seats or seat belts.[1] The captain planned to land near the ship in full sunlight, to improve the likelihood of rescuing passengers, but became concerned that the ocean waves were beginning to rise.
At 0540 Captain Ogg notified Pontchartrain that he was preparing to ditch. The cutter laid out a foam path for a best ditch heading of 315 degrees, to aid the captain to judge his height above the water. After a dry run the plane touched down at 0615, at 90 knots with full flaps and landing gear retracted, in sight of the Pontchartrain at 30?01.5'N. 140?09'W.
One wing hit a swell, causing the plane to rotate, damaging the nose section and breaking off the tail. All 31 on board survived the ditching. Three life rafts were deployed by the crew and passengers that had been previously assigned to help. One raft failed to inflate properly, but rescue boats from the cutter were able to promptly transfer the passengers from that raft. All were rescued by the Coast Guard before the last pieces of wreckage sank at 6:35 a.m.
They were housed in the ship's officers' quarters and returned to San Francisco several days later.[1]
There were a few minor injuries, including an 18-month-old girl who bumped her head during the impact and was knocked unconscious. Forty-four cases of live canaries in the cargo hold were lost when the plane sank.[1]

 

[Mookie]

What about OGG (Maui)- Captain Richard N Ogg, Pan Am

Flight 6 (registration N90943, and sometimes erroneously called Flight 943) was an around-the-world airline flight that ditched in the Pacific Ocean on October 16, 1956, after two of its four engines failed.
Flight 6 was scheduled to leave Philadelphia as a DC-6B and fly east around the globe with many stops (and a change to a Boeing aircraft at Tokyo) to San Francisco International Airport. On the evening of October 15, 1956 the departure from Honolulu was on Boeing 377 Stratocruiser "Clipper Sovereign Of The Skies" (Pan Am fleet number 943, registered N90943). The accident was the basis for the 1958 film "Crash Landing".


Accident details

The aircraft took off from Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, at 8:26 p.m. HST on the flight's last leg to San Francisco. After passing the point of equal time, the flight received permission to climb to an altitude of 21,000 ft. When that altitude was reached, the No. 1 engine began to overspeed as power was reduced. The First Officer, who was flying the plane, immediately slowed the plane by further reducing power and by extending the flaps, and an attempt was made to feather the propeller. The propeller would not feather and the engine continued to turn at excessive RPM. The captain decided to cut off the oil supply to the engine. Eventually, the RPM declined and the engine seized. The propeller continued to windmill in the air stream, causing excessive drag that increased the fuel consumption. As a result, the plane was forced to fly much slower, below 150 knots, and lost altitude at the rate of 1,000 feet per minute. Climb power was set on the remaining three engines to slow the rate of descent. The No. 4 engine then began to fail and soon was producing only partial power at full throttle. At 2:45 a.m. the No. 4 engine began to backfire, forcing the crew to shut it down and feather the propeller.

The crew calculated the added drag left them with insufficient fuel to reach San Francisco or to return to Honolulu. In the 1950s the United States Coast Guard maintained a ship at Ocean Station November between Hawaii and the California coast. On that night, the ship was the USCGC Pontchartrain. The plane flew to the Pontchartrain's location, leveled off at 2,000 feet, and circled until daylight on the two remaining engines.
The captain decided to wait for daylight, since it was important to keep the wings level with the ocean swells at the ditching impact. As fuel burned off while the plane circled the Coast Guard cutter, the plane was able to climb from 2,000 feet to 5,000 feet. At that altitude several practice approaches were made to see that the plane would be controllable at low speed (the goal was to have the lowest speed possible, just before touching the water). Delaying ditching until daylight also made the plane lighter so it would float longer.
Aware of the Pan Am Flight 845/26 accident the year before, in which a Boeing 377's tail section had broken off during a water landing, the captain told the flight's purser to clear passengers from the back of the plane. The crew removed loose objects from the cabin, and prepared the passengers for the landing. As on other flights in the era, small children were allowed on their parents' laps, without separate seats or seat belts.[1] The captain planned to land near the ship in full sunlight, to improve the likelihood of rescuing passengers, but became concerned that the ocean waves were beginning to rise.
At 0540 Captain Ogg notified Pontchartrain that he was preparing to ditch. The cutter laid out a foam path for a best ditch heading of 315 degrees, to aid the captain to judge his height above the water. After a dry run the plane touched down at 0615, at 90 knots with full flaps and landing gear retracted, in sight of the Pontchartrain at 30?01.5'N. 140?09'W.
One wing hit a swell, causing the plane to rotate, damaging the nose section and breaking off the tail. All 31 on board survived the ditching. Three life rafts were deployed by the crew and passengers that had been previously assigned to help. One raft failed to inflate properly, but rescue boats from the cutter were able to promptly transfer the passengers from that raft. All were rescued by the Coast Guard before the last pieces of wreckage sank at 6:35 a.m.
They were housed in the ship's officers' quarters and returned to San Francisco several days later.[1]
There were a few minor injuries, including an 18-month-old girl who bumped her head during the impact and was knocked unconscious. Forty-four cases of live canaries in the cargo hold were lost when the plane sank.[1]

That's really cool!! always wondered

 

[SWA Bubba]

What about OGG (Maui)- Captain Richard N Ogg, Pan Am

Flight 6 (registration N90943, and sometimes erroneously called Flight 943) was an around-the-world airline flight that ditched in the Pacific Ocean on October 16, 1956, after two of its four engines failed.
Flight 6 was scheduled to leave Philadelphia as a DC-6B and fly east around the globe with many stops (and a change to a Boeing aircraft at Tokyo) to San Francisco International Airport. On the evening of October 15, 1956 the departure from Honolulu was on Boeing 377 Stratocruiser "Clipper Sovereign Of The Skies" (Pan Am fleet number 943, registered N90943). The accident was the basis for the 1958 film "Crash Landing".


Accident details

The aircraft took off from Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, at 8:26 p.m. HST on the flight's last leg to San Francisco. After passing the point of equal time, the flight received permission to climb to an altitude of 21,000 ft. When that altitude was reached, the No. 1 engine began to overspeed as power was reduced. The First Officer, who was flying the plane, immediately slowed the plane by further reducing power and by extending the flaps, and an attempt was made to feather the propeller. The propeller would not feather and the engine continued to turn at excessive RPM. The captain decided to cut off the oil supply to the engine. Eventually, the RPM declined and the engine seized. The propeller continued to windmill in the air stream, causing excessive drag that increased the fuel consumption. As a result, the plane was forced to fly much slower, below 150 knots, and lost altitude at the rate of 1,000 feet per minute. Climb power was set on the remaining three engines to slow the rate of descent. The No. 4 engine then began to fail and soon was producing only partial power at full throttle. At 2:45 a.m. the No. 4 engine began to backfire, forcing the crew to shut it down and feather the propeller.

The crew calculated the added drag left them with insufficient fuel to reach San Francisco or to return to Honolulu. In the 1950s the United States Coast Guard maintained a ship at Ocean Station November between Hawaii and the California coast. On that night, the ship was the USCGC Pontchartrain. The plane flew to the Pontchartrain's location, leveled off at 2,000 feet, and circled until daylight on the two remaining engines.
The captain decided to wait for daylight, since it was important to keep the wings level with the ocean swells at the ditching impact. As fuel burned off while the plane circled the Coast Guard cutter, the plane was able to climb from 2,000 feet to 5,000 feet. At that altitude several practice approaches were made to see that the plane would be controllable at low speed (the goal was to have the lowest speed possible, just before touching the water). Delaying ditching until daylight also made the plane lighter so it would float longer.
Aware of the Pan Am Flight 845/26 accident the year before, in which a Boeing 377's tail section had broken off during a water landing, the captain told the flight's purser to clear passengers from the back of the plane. The crew removed loose objects from the cabin, and prepared the passengers for the landing. As on other flights in the era, small children were allowed on their parents' laps, without separate seats or seat belts.[1] The captain planned to land near the ship in full sunlight, to improve the likelihood of rescuing passengers, but became concerned that the ocean waves were beginning to rise.
At 0540 Captain Ogg notified Pontchartrain that he was preparing to ditch. The cutter laid out a foam path for a best ditch heading of 315 degrees, to aid the captain to judge his height above the water. After a dry run the plane touched down at 0615, at 90 knots with full flaps and landing gear retracted, in sight of the Pontchartrain at 30?01.5'N. 140?09'W.
One wing hit a swell, causing the plane to rotate, damaging the nose section and breaking off the tail. All 31 on board survived the ditching. Three life rafts were deployed by the crew and passengers that had been previously assigned to help. One raft failed to inflate properly, but rescue boats from the cutter were able to promptly transfer the passengers from that raft. All were rescued by the Coast Guard before the last pieces of wreckage sank at 6:35 a.m.
They were housed in the ship's officers' quarters and returned to San Francisco several days later.[1]
There were a few minor injuries, including an 18-month-old girl who bumped her head during the impact and was knocked unconscious. Forty-four cases of live canaries in the cargo hold were lost when the plane sank.[1]

Interesting story.

However, while Wikipedia provided the narrative above under "Pan Am Flight 6," it separately attributed the identifier OGG to a different guy:

"The airport code pays homage to aviation pioneer Bertram J. Hogg who worked for what is now Hawaiian Airlines flying aircraft ranging from eight-passenger Sikorsky S-38 amphibians to Douglas DC-3s and DC-9s into the late 1960s."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui_International_Airport

 

[Freebrd]

Which airport in Chicago is gonna be named after dear leader barry obamamessiah, ORD or MDW? Hope neither one.

OHara-Jesse Jackson-Obama Int Airport