Old Flight Attendant
Flying a DC-10 on one of the routes from Hawaii to San Fran, we were coming up on an old Kalitta DC-8 that was mostly silver with just a little white. As we were going by we called the number one, (A good natured old girl with silver hair that had been playing this game all the way back to Pan Am days in San Fran) we told her to look off the right side of the airplane and that she would see this DC-8 about 1,000 feet below us and about 500 feet to the right. She said most of the people were up and that the movie had just finished so it would be a great time to make an announcement. I asked the Flight Engineer to take a look and tell me when she was standing at R2 looking out the window. He gave me the thumbs up and I started my PA.
" from the cockpit, just a quick update on our position, we are currently about 90 min. from San Francisco and the wx is still great. If you take a look at the right side of the airplane you will notice a grand old silver lady from the golden age of aviation, pause, pause oh and there is also DC-8 out there."