And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I took that helicopter in 1973 from Newark airport to JFK. We landed on the Pan am building let a few people off took some on and continued to JFK. In 1977 one crashed attempting to land there and the service was discontinued.
A reminder of the time when air travel was more than a flying bus....Pan Am, Delta, Eastern, Continental, National, Piedmont, United, American....all stellar service in those days....it was difficult to get a flight that didn't serve a meal, or at least a sandwich...and the stews were all attractive, with no guys....at least, that I knew of....Flew Eastern back and forth from the islands so often that 727 seemed like a personal aircraft....
I flew Pan Am to Australia back in 1973. What a great flight! Attractive stewardesses, free cigarettes (3-packs,) free drinks & food- and what I wish they had now, leg room!
remember the "old" Frontier airlines? they used actual China and silver service to serve a in flight meal. now days you would be lucky to get a sandwich wrapped in saran wrap before they sold out.
I took that helicopter in 1973 from Newark airport to JFK. We landed on the Pan am building let a few people off took some on and continued to JFK. In 1977 one crashed attempting to land there and the service was discontinued.
ReplyDeleteSo that could in fact be you on that chopper!
DeleteTypical, we get cool stuff until some clown screws it up by crashing on top of a skyscraper.
A reminder of the time when air travel was more than a flying bus....Pan Am, Delta, Eastern, Continental, National, Piedmont, United, American....all stellar service in those days....it was difficult to get a flight that didn't serve a meal, or at least a sandwich...and the stews were all attractive, with no guys....at least, that I knew of....Flew Eastern back and forth from the islands so often that 727 seemed like a personal aircraft....
ReplyDeleteMy father was a purser for Eastern in the 30's. Based in Miami. Did pretty much the same thing for the Naval Air Transport Service, NATS, during WWII.
ReplyDeleteI flew Pan Am to Australia back in 1973. What a great flight! Attractive stewardesses, free cigarettes (3-packs,) free drinks & food- and what I wish they had now, leg room!
ReplyDeleteremember the "old" Frontier airlines? they used actual China and silver service to serve a in flight meal. now days you would be lucky to get a sandwich wrapped in saran wrap before they sold out.
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