We’re all looking forward to travel again, right? Flying on luxurious airliners, with plenty of legroom, free (and excellent) meals, and just a few short hours to an exotic destination like Hawaii.
(This is also targeted content for great and good FOTB RoadRich and the 1940 Air Terminal Museum, who I haven’t done anything for in a couple of weeks, at least.)
We’ll get there. But first, your coffee break historical bite: “Sentinel in the Sky”, from 1955. A Pan Am promotional film about radar: how it works, and how Pan Am plans to use it in their aircraft.
Bonus video #1, which is a little longer: “Holiday in Hawaii”, from an airline that still exists (for now). This is from sometime in the 1950s: a promotional film for United Airlines, the DC-7, and travel to Hawaii. As the YouTube notes say, this is a relic of a time before jet travel made going to Hawaii fast, easy, and (I guess relatively) affordable.
Bonus video #2: giving equal time to the (now defunct) competition, “Wings to Hawaii”. A video on a similar theme, but this time from Pan Am. You know, the folks with radar?