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]


© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1969 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011





“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




Tuesday, May 1, 2012

1969 Boeing 747-131, c/n 19671/21, N93105, TWA

1969 Boeing 747-131, c/n 19671/21, N93105, TWA (Trans World Airlines 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 (?), long-range, wide-body, double-deck airliner; built by The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Everett, Washington; first flight on February 23, 1970; N93105, TWA, New York, New York on March 9, 1970; stored at Kansas City International Airport (MCI), Kansas City, Missouri during September 1991; served with TWA her entire career, tt 95,004 hours, 17,941 landings; withdrawn from use at Kansas City International Airport (MCI), Kansas City, Missouri on September 25, 1994; scrapped by January 2000.

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]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, August 1987

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