Screenshots

[727pilot]

Hi all,

I'd like to share some screenshots with all you retro-AI-fans out there. Hope you like them! My system is not the best - and it's the first time I've messed around with screenies... but still - the shots might give you an idea of my AI-world.
So let me now take you back to the late 70s / early 80s in Europe. Unfortunately the sceneries are not retro at all...

Let's begin in Frankfurt EDDF with a crowded Lufthansa-Terminal in the early morning hours:
(click on the image for original size)
www.directupload.net/show/d/747/CSA7LJpm.jpg

Lufthansa 727-230 standing at gate B26:
www.directupload.net/show/d/747/DGa7S89i.jpg

LOT Tupolev-134 ready for departure to Warsaw - in the background two Pan Am 727s which used to fly the transit-traffic to West-Berlin:
www.directupload.net/show/d/747/wbWU6ntC.jpg

LH 727 taxiing infront of Terminal B:
www.directupload.net/show/d/747/SowstrfM.jpg

View from a 720-flightdeck (okay - it's a KC-135...) in Amsterdam:
www.directupload.net/show/d/747/MPGBJ7g2.jpg

Aeroflot Tu-154 and CSA Tu-134s + Aer Lingus 737-200 in Prague:
www.directupload.net/show/d/747/VfTN9hyR.jpg

Finally a visit to Paris-Orly - "Caravelle-heaven":
www.directupload.net/show/d/747/Ay4ju33J.jpg

Kind regards

Michael

[Christian Page, RAI]

LH and PA at Frankfurt - that takes me back. I well recall the Clipper 727s that flew the Internal German Services (IGS) to West Berlin. I have an interesting article on those services somewhere, they had to fly very specific corridors and report at certain times, etc. - the Clipper pilots thought it was some of the neve-wracking flying they ever did because one foul-up and here come the MIGs - or worse, a SAM.

[Andy]

There is great info about the IGS in the book Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am, which is an excellent read. Those pilots were, to say the least, nonconformists.

Andy

[Christian Page, RAI]

aspall said:

There is great info about the IGS in the book Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am, which is an excellent read. Those pilots were, to say the least, nonconformists.

Andy

I have that book - that may be the resource I'm thinking of. I have so much stuff, that I can't always recall where I read it...lol! I have to buy more, still - just saw a review in "Airliners" for a book called "Airliners of the 1970's" - can't pass that one up! Oh, as a complete history of Piedmont, with all kinds of memorbilia and accompanying DVD. That's $52 US, but the proceeds go to the group that maintains the Piedmont DC-3 and other Carolina-related aviation history, so it's not going to be $52 wasted.

[sunking]

Yay. Great Shot´s! Are you going to submitt those Planes and Flightplan´s, to Avsim, as a Bundle??? I really miss the old LH´s, DE´s (Condor with the 747´s (One of which got shot down in 1983)). Plz, do it. I think a lot of the european Simmers would like the 70´s, especially me ;D.

Regards.

-STEFAN-SUNKING-

[sunking]

Hi.

Hast Du nicht vor kurzem Deine AI Flugpläne für Europäische Airlines vorgestellt? Was ist damit passiert? Ich hatte damals wie heute auch immer noch interesse daran zumindestens Deutschland in die vergangenheit zu beamen. Könntest Du nicht Deine Flugpläne und Flugzeuge veröffentlichen? Wie gesagt, dass mit der SIA und Thai kann ich nicht versprechen, da ich im moment zu sehr mit beruflichen Dingen beschäftigt bin. Wie der Beckenbauer immer sagt: "Schau mer mal!"

Didn´t you create some european Airlines, such as DLH and so on??? What happend to them? Could share the German Airlines with me? I find it a bit funny to see modern day DLH all white Planes standing at EDDF beside a historical PAN AM.

Regards.

-STEFAN-SUN_KING-