WORDS & WINGS: PanAm

1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-101, CF-VFU, FIFT. Dockside somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C., Canada in spring 1969.

[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 86125, with Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50-mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319; Kodak Plus-X Pan (ISO 125/22°) 36-exposure black & white negative film]

“The whole history of the Canadian North can be divided into two periods—before and after the aeroplane.”

Hugh L. Keenleyside, Deputy Canadian Minister of Mines and Resources, October 1949

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

1970 Boeing 747-121, c/n 19653/30, N749PA, “749”, Clipper Intrepid, PanAm

1970 Boeing 747-121, c/n 19653/30, N749PA, “749”, Clipper Intrepid, PanAm (Pan American World Airways Inc.), New York, New York, USA; powered by four 46,500-lbs thrust Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7A high-bypass turbofan engines; crew of three (pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer), seating configuration (370 passengers), long-range, wide-body, double-deck airliner; built by The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington, USA, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Renton, Washington at Everett, Washington; first flight on March 21, 1970; delivered to PanAm on April 10, 1970; renamed Clipper Dashing Wave; withdrawn from use; stored at Pinal Airpark (MZJ), Marana, Arizona, USA in December 1991; scrapped in 1994.

London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Hillingdon, London, England sometime in December 1974.

My father Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg travelled on a family emergency to see his mother in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, flying aboard an Air Canada Boeing 747-133, non-stop from Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada to London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Hillingdon, London, England, and then onward (Lufthansa?) to Flughafen Stuttgart (STR), Stuttgart-Echterdingen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany.

[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 86125, with Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50-mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319]

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

1968 Boeing 727-235, c/n 19474/607, N4754, “54”, Clipper Resolute, PanAm

1968 Boeing 727-235, c/n 19474/607, N4754, “54”, Clipper Resolute, PanAm (Pan American World Airways Inc.), New York, New York, USA; powered by three 14,000-lbs thrust Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B low-bypass turbofan engines; crew of three (pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer), seating configuration F14Y122, mid-range, mid-size, narrow-body airliner; built by The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Renton, Washington; first flight on July 12, 1968; N4754, “54”, National Airlines, Miami-Dade County, Florida on July 25, 1968; N4754, “54”, Clipper Resolute, PanAm, New York, New York on January 7, 1980, merged; withdrawn from use on December 4, 1991; N4754, Extex International Inc., Dallas, Texas on July 27, 1992; XA-SFG, AeroExo (Aero Ejecutivo), Monterrey, Nuevo León, México on November 9, 1992, stored at Aeropuerto Internacional Mariano Escobedo/General Mariano Escobedo International Airport (MTY), Apodaca, Nuevo León; withdrawn from use.

Flughafen Zürich (ZRH), Kloten, Rümlang, und Oberglatt, Zürich, Schweiz on Sunday, August 16, 1987.

[1984 Nikon FE2 SLR 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 1816483, with Nikkor AI 50-mm f/1.8 lens, s/n 2336591, and 52-mm polarizing filter; Kodak Gold Super 200 36-exposure colour negative film]