Aerospace advances fairly quickly, and the day you took that flight became history…
Have you ever been on a flight when it gets to the point of reaching near the runway, the pilot suddenly guns the engines and aborts the landing? That’s what we will be discussing here. I was so excited to get to fly that I was in a rush to [...]
This is a continuation of the trip from Northwest Airlines flight 1061, the DC-9-40 flight. I was quite thrilled to get to ride one my favorite types, the Boeing 757-200. It appears that this day we rode the Boeing 757-251, the 51 being Boeing’s customer identifier for the type. The [...]
During a stopover in Detroit, I was able to snap some photos of aircraft that I do not normally see everyday. I was eager to see the 747-400, Airbus 330s, Avros, and other types. Detroit was a major hub for Northwest Airlines in those days. This would be the layover [...]