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......