1967 Dornier Do 31 E3, D-9531, Deutsches Museum

Outdoor static display, Deutsches Museum, Museuminsel, München, Bayern, Westdeutschland on Wednesday, August 13, 1986

1967 Dornier Do 31 E3, D-9531, Deutsches Museum, Museuminsel, München, Bayern, Westdeutschland

• powered by two 15,500-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce Pegasus BE.53/2 thrust-vectoring turbofan engines and eight 4,400-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce RB.162-4D vertically-mounted turbojet lift engines
• crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), 36 troops or 24 casualty stretchers, experimental VSTOL (vertical short take-off and landing) transport
• built by Dornier Flugzeugwerke GmbH, Manzell, Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Westdeutschland
• first flight on July 14, 1967
• project cancelled in April 1970
• initially stored at Oberpfaffenhofen, Bayern, Westdeutschland, then for several years on outdoor static display in front of entrance of Deutsches Museum, and after restoration now on indoor static display at Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim, Oberschleissheim, near München, Bayern, Deutschland

[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 Kodacolor VR 200 (Kodak CL 200 5093) 36-exposure colour negative film]

© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, August 1986

1970 Boeing 747-146, c/n 19727/54, JA8103, JAL—Japan Airlines

1970 Boeing 747-146, c/n 19727/54, JA8103, JAL—Japan Airlines at London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL), Hillingdon, London, England sometime in December 1974

1970 Boeing 747-146, c/n 19727/54, JA8103, JAL—Japan Airlines (Japan Airlines Co. Ltd.), Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

• 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, USA, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Renton, Washington at Everett, Washington
• first flight on June 9, 1970
• delivered to JAL—Japan Airlines on June 26, 1970
• transferred to Japan Asia Airways (Japan Asia Airways Co. Ltd.), Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan on November 24, 1982
• headquarters relocated to Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan in 1985
• N703CK, American International Airways (American International Airways Inc.), Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, USA on December 22, 1992
• leased to Saudi Arabian Airlines, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on April 28, 1993
• returned to American International Airways on March 2, 1996
• American International Airways merged with Kitty Hawk International (Kitty Hawk Inc.), Grapevine, Texas, USA on January 15, 1997, but retained separate identity
• leased to Saudi Arabian Airlines, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in March 1997
• returned to American International Airways in October 1997
• American International Airways renamed Kitty Hawk International on February 3, 1999
• Kitty Hawk International ceased operations on May 1, 2000
• Connie Kalitta purchased and obtained Kitty Hawk International’s assets and operating certificate, airline renamed Kalitta Air, Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, USA in November 2000
• re-registered to Kalitta Air
• re-registered as N40483 on August 29, 2003, cancelled on February 10, 2006
• withdrawn from use at Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport (OSC/KOSC), Iosco County, Michigan, USA
• stored

[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]

© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, December 1974 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, May 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]

© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, December 1974 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, May 2012