Archive for March 4th, 2021

“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 338

Thursday, March 4th, 2021

Travel Thursday!

Would you like to fly in my beautiful balloon? Or if not that, a passenger airplane from the 1950s?

From those wonderful folks at TWA, “Flight To California”.

Bonus, plus CanCon! “The Mother of Rivers”, about the Columbia River ice field. Made about 1947 for the Canadian National Railways by our old friends at the National Film Board of Canada.

Bonus #2: Again, I’m stretching the definition of travel, but this involves planes and is short. Have you ever wanted to see a Boeing 747-8 fully loaded abort a takeoff at 200 MPH? Using only the brakes, no reverse thrust? And by the way, the brakes are worn down to the metal studs?