Jet Age Terms
Based on Youtube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V886TJn-cQU
Planes are called Jet Mainliners
Two abreast seating arrangement
luggage space is open, no doors
New York International Airport (Idlewild now JFK)
Atlantic Seaboard
Red Carpet Service
Coach lounge
Red Carpet room is an informal sitting room with space to stretch and relax.
United’s Operating Base is in Denver
Reads weather data from all over the world
There was a time when the distant whistle of a train sounding in the night would fill our minds with distant places far away. But today, there are no places far away. And it is the quiet speed of smooth jet flight that intrigues the imagination and stirs the wanderlust that lies in the heart of everyone who wants to travel.
They call it the Red Carpet Room because, extending as it does, the entire spacious width of the airplane, it lends itself so wealth to the hospitality, friendliness and comfort, that are the hallmarks of Red Carpet Service.
Traveling salesman
And so it is that to almost everyone.. the age of jets does have that very real and personal meaning of being able to see more and do more in every possible way.
Today, just about everyone is flying.
People sitting around a table playing cards on a plane.
Vibration free performance.
US National reputation for mass production. Pratt and Whitney engines
Douglass DC-8
History of NY-SF travel
DC 3 17 hrs 29 minutes
DC 4 15 hrs 45 minutes
DC 6 11 hrs 5 minutes
DC 7 8 hrs 49 minutes
DC 8 5 hrs 29 minutes
Reading lights move with the chair (attached to the headrest)
Continental chefs
Huge display of food
Copper skillet breakfast with ham and eggs and steak
Fresh coffee
Chilled lobster cocktail
Technology and optimism:
...As speed increases, our world is getting smaller. But physical distance doesn’t change… it only seems that way because we are growing.