Published at 9:00 am on Monday 31 August 2009. Categories: New York.
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That’s a great picture.
— Anthony1 Sep 2009 2:58 am
… of the New York that was – and was worth living in.
Not to mention what it was like to be a cosseted passenger in airplanes of that era.
Since I’ve been flying for well over fifty years, I know what I’m talking about.
I pity you youngsters who will never know those pleasures.
— B T Van Nostrand1 Sep 2009 6:08 pm
I think if you moved the plane aside, you would be able to see St. Agnes Church, as it stood from the 1860s to the fire that took it down in 1992.
— Steve M1 Sep 2009 7:43 pm
Gentlemen,
I do not know about being a “cosseted passenger,” and flying in over New York in a propeller-powered aircraft would be hard to come by these days — to say the least.
However, flying in propeller-powered aircraft is still possible. Regular traffic between Vienna and Budapest involves such aircraft, and I suppose this is where you should fly to get a feeling of the flights of the deposed King of Hungary in his restoration attempts.
I guess we should not speak too loudly of this, lest the republican government in Vienna issues a ban against propeller-powered flights to Hungary.
Thank you, Herr Baltzersen, for this precious information. I shall book my flight from Vienna to Budapest as soon as possible.
But will it be as good as this I wonder: I once flew from San Francisco to Los Angeles, first class (this will have been around 1956). After a delicious meal, properly cooked and served, we were ushered to the back of the plane, where we then ate a superb peach cobbler seated around a circular table within the tail section of the aircraft. No crowding, no seatbelts, no bother.
Unimaginable today, surely.
— B T Van Nostrand2 Sep 2009 7:41 pm
It will not, I am sad to say, sir.
To get that kind of treatment, I guess you would have to charter an aircraft, and the costs I dare not even think about.
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That’s a great picture.
… of the New York that was – and was worth living in.
Not to mention what it was like to be a cosseted passenger in airplanes of that era.
Since I’ve been flying for well over fifty years, I know what I’m talking about.
I pity you youngsters who will never know those pleasures.
I think if you moved the plane aside, you would be able to see St. Agnes Church, as it stood from the 1860s to the fire that took it down in 1992.
Gentlemen,
I do not know about being a “cosseted passenger,” and flying in over New York in a propeller-powered aircraft would be hard to come by these days — to say the least.
However, flying in propeller-powered aircraft is still possible. Regular traffic between Vienna and Budapest involves such aircraft, and I suppose this is where you should fly to get a feeling of the flights of the deposed King of Hungary in his restoration attempts.
I guess we should not speak too loudly of this, lest the republican government in Vienna issues a ban against propeller-powered flights to Hungary.
Thank you, Herr Baltzersen, for this precious information. I shall book my flight from Vienna to Budapest as soon as possible.
But will it be as good as this I wonder: I once flew from San Francisco to Los Angeles, first class (this will have been around 1956). After a delicious meal, properly cooked and served, we were ushered to the back of the plane, where we then ate a superb peach cobbler seated around a circular table within the tail section of the aircraft. No crowding, no seatbelts, no bother.
Unimaginable today, surely.
It will not, I am sad to say, sir.
To get that kind of treatment, I guess you would have to charter an aircraft, and the costs I dare not even think about.