Here's some funny aviation history

[DE727UPS]

Why the Wenatchee Museum is preserving a 95-year-old sandwich

WENATCHEE — Locked behind five doors, hidden in a dark container and wrapped in cellophane sits a 95-year-old artifact: Clyde Pangborn’s sandwich.

www.wenatcheeworld.com

 

[fholbert]

Then there is hope for the Tuna sandwich lost under my back seat in 2009.

 

[JordanD]

Why the Wenatchee Museum is preserving a 95-year-old sandwich

WENATCHEE — Locked behind five doors, hidden in a dark container and wrapped in cellophane sits a 95-year-old artifact: Clyde Pangborn’s sandwich.

www.wenatcheeworld.com

I freak out when Panda Express is closed on a quick turn and this guy is flying across the Pacific with a sandwich.

 

[Skåning]

I freak out when Panda Express is closed on a quick turn and this guy is flying across the Pacific with a sandwich.

Well half a sandwich, cus someone stole and saved the other half. What a cultural treasure.

 

[fholbert]

Old TV ad where two older pilots were talking about the luxury of modern jet travel. IIRC a major was starting to fly the 747.

Pilot: "Look at the food todays passengers eat. All we got was a sandwich and two apple's."​

<Copilot looks at CA with a surprised look>​

Copilot: "I never got an apple."​

Even as a kid I thought it was pretty funny.

 

[Richman]

Old TV ad where two older pilots were talking about the luxury of modern jet travel. IIRC a major was starting to fly the 747.

Pilot: "Look at the food todays passengers eat. All we got was a sandwich and two apple's."​

<Copilot looks at CA with a surprised look>​

Copilot: "I never got an apple."​

Even as a kid I thought it was pretty funny.

I always get a chuckle when I think of Ernie Gann’s description of his first line flight with American:

“The stewardess brought up 2 boxed lunches. She placed Ross’s carefully on his lap. She placed mine on the floor, with the same solicitude one might show a wayward dog”

 

[knot4u]

I always get a chuckle when I think of Ernie Gann’s description of his first line flight with American:

“The stewardess brought up 2 boxed lunches. She placed Ross’s carefully on his lap. She placed mine on the floor, with the same solicitude one might show a wayward dog”

His books are treasures and long out of print, buy them if you see them at yard or estate sales. I recall going to Barnes and Noble and asking for a copy of "Gentlemen Of Adventure" trying to find a copy as a gift for a friend and they looked at me like I was trying to hurt them, after a couple moments it might have been justified. I did not get arrested and they still had no idea what I was looking for.

 

[Max Power]

I'd like a moment alone with the sandwich...

 

[Max Power]

I always get a chuckle when I think of Ernie Gann’s description of his first line flight with American:

“The stewardess brought up 2 boxed lunches. She placed Ross’s carefully on his lap. She placed mine on the floor, with the same solicitude one might show a wayward dog”

I had read Fate is the Hunter years ago. It took on new meaning when I re-read it again after enduring my first Part 121 airline training.

 

[bLizZuE]

I highly recommend Yesterday we were in America. First non-stop Atlantic crossing by two Brits.