More of the wonderful promotional shots from the Golden Age of commercial aviation. Big Thanks to all contributors, who sent in the materials for this follow-up page.
Trans World Airlines: (originally Transcontinental & Western Air)
British Airways Museum displays a great collection of vintage airliners and interior shots, including a glimpse of BOAC stewardesses' attire in 60s and 70s. (thanks for the tip by Patti Evans, who herself was an airline stewardess from 1970 - 1988 for BOAC/British airways) Click to enlarge images.
If you think airline travel was glamorous in these days, think about how space travel was imagined at the time... With the same groovy-dressed stewardesses, no less.
"2001: A Space Odyssey" offers us a glimpse of the uniform of a Pan Am stewardess on a moonliner:
YouTube offers up some additional Southwest Airling commercials worth the watch, but the final word on host stewardess attire would have to be SARSair.com
Thanks for heads up on this, retrokatze. The offer comes from reputable ad network, so we have no reason to suspect otherwise, but we'll look into this.
That video is directly from Planet Earth, Episode 1 - Pole to Pole, and is one of the many species of bird of paradise. It's a great miniseries (11-episode documentary) by Discovery Channel and BBC.
Those St. Petersburg cars are having to deal with ice in many of the crashes; you can tell by the glide. However, many of them are also driving too fast for the conditions. "Drive as though you have no brakes— because you don't."
"Note the Nazi Germany soldier sharing his experiences with Stalinist Army, widely practiced cooperation just before the onset of World War II." Actually - Russians and Nazis together started WWII by attacking Poland.
Yes, what's more, there is even a school of thought that maintains that Hitler attacked Russian in a preemptive effort not to be attacked himself by "world revolution"-crazed Stalin. See here
,,By the way, on the bottom left is one of the Hitler's macho dreams - the Maus. This would give you some idea what unspeakable scale was projected for the Soviet "Bolshevik" tank from 1932.''
Actually, it's the other way round: left-bottom corner silhouette depicts the Kollosalwagen, whereas the Maus can be seen on the right.
Rocket firing Sovjet tanks are not very special. After the experimental types ALL russian tanks sported 125 mm, or bigger, SMOOTH bore cannons that fired either fin stabilized grenades or sabots or guided rockets. The Germans had a siege tank, the Sturmtiger, that was armored with halve a foot of steel on the front, that drove up to a bunker and fired a 38 cm rocket, at point blank range in the bunker, penetrating 2.5 meters of reinforced concrete, destroying it. As for the Russian and German soldier shown together: the first pacts between Stalin and Hitler entailed a joined development of tanks and tank warfare strategies during which training bouts the germans actually kept up with the pace of the Allied tank armies, which had been forbidden by the treaty of Versailles. www.achtungpantzer.com for all details on all german tanks (although it doesn't have the ball tank on it)
With respect to the A7V, your joke about stormtroopers is unfortunate. It took me a while to figure out you meant the Star Wars Stormtroopers and not the WW1 Stosstruppen or the Nazi Sturmabteilung. You have to allow that some of your readers' references go back a little farther than the last 15 hours!
Uhm... avi abrams... And the Japanese attacked PH in order to anticipate the bloody expansion of the paranoid US. The history showed they're write. to bad for them.
The Fahrpanzer or a close derivative appears on a book in my collection. "Permanent Fortification" by Lt Col G J Feibeger of West Point (1900),it appears to be a manual for West Point Cadets. Thank you for publishing the photos, it has assisted my efforts immesurably.
Survivorman is genuinely great, it feels and IS all real. Plus survival advices he gives are in fact quite clever and, uhm, helpful. Bear's are dumb, aimed to sound terrifying/disgusting, and sometimes even dangerous to your health (like the one about drinking pee).
"QUANTUM SHOT" #314
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In pic #3 of the "In the Beginning" section I recognized my late next door neighbor.
Betty McQuaid flew with TWA in the late '30s and thru the '40s, eventually marrying one of its pilots.
Betty was featured several times in TWA publicity. She was as petite and charming at 90 as she had been in her 20s.
YouTube offers up some additional Southwest Airling commercials worth the watch, but the final word on host stewardess attire would have to be SARSair.com
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