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, 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Washington; first flight on March 21, 1970; delivered to PanAm on April 10, 1970; renamed Clipper Dashing Wave; withdrawn from use; stored at Pinal Airpark (MZJ), Marana, Arizona, USA in December 1991; scrapped in 1994.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]

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

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