Lockheed Constellations and other assorted piston-prop aircraft complete this series of photos by LC Gagnon.
A shirt-sleeved member of the ground crew marshals a DC-3.
Probably a DC-6 is being fueled here.
Under Canadian National Railways 'ownership', the crown corporation TCA visits New York.
Our first Lockheed Constellation appears.
A DC-3 lands in the background.
Knowing LC Gagnon, this is a deliberate study of dihedral and symmetry.
A DC-4 of Pan American.
Notice the 'Clipper' detail near the pilot's window.
An Eastern Airlines DC-3 is checked and readied for its next flight.
Frequent engine inspection was probably a requirement for the first airliners.
New York City's main air terminal is a busy spot.
A good display of flaps deployment marks the overhead passage of a Constellation.
Previous posts in this series are here:
(Includes a diagram of the airport back then)
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After posting Jim Christie found some interesting films for me:
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First is a 5:44 long 1935 home movie of an American Airlines DC-2 flight from Chicago
which also shows a cockpit windscreen view of Niagara Falls.
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The second is a 9:34 home movie in colour which shows many airport scenes,
including planes such as the Lockheed Constellation.
The main focus of the film is President Truman's
USAAF DC-6 aircraft, from which the 'in flight' scenes were filmed.
This circa 1947 film has some sequences above the clouds which you can
speed through if you want to concentrate on the aircraft/airport scenes.