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Even more trivia, and lots of cool info too!

On 5/21/2020 3:12 AM, McGrandpa wrote:
> I'm watching that episode now, and only at 4 mins in, I get a great 
> Nostalgia Boost.  "Better call Weather Ship Charlie!" says the 
> 'skipper'.  Wow, they are on a transatlantic flight from the UK to the 
> US (Idlewild).
> 
> The Boeing 747 was the first civilian airliner to open up most of Europe 
> to non-stop trans-oceanic flight from the US.  And they still fly over 
> parts of the Arctic region to get to UK, France, east Europe. It is just 
> the shortest route.
> 
> While most flights we actually talked with over the RT net were MAC 
> flights, a few were civilian airliners.  They are raising Ocean 
> (Weather) Station Charlie, one part of my first "cruise" on the USCGC 
> Taney, a double patrol, a Bravo-Charlie.  The first 27 days were the OS 
> Bravo, near the Arctic circle, then the rest was on OS Charlie, then 
> back to port.  78 days out total.  Total number of aircraft observed, 
> 60, total number we logged comms with, 3.
> 
> This was in 73, Loran C was now in global use, not much need for a 
> vessel between continents at that point.   The Ocean Stations were, 
> well, obsolete.  Redundant.  Overkill.  Purposeless. A waste of money. 
> We stood the last Charlie, actually. Taney also stood the very last 
> Ocean WEATHER Station HOTEL, east coast.  There is now a permanent sea 
> buoy with its own automated weather observatory.  So, all this in our 
> little lifetimes, Spamster!
> 
> I was in 3rd (9 yrs old) grade when JFK was killed.  The worst part is 
> that it was shown school-wide on all classrooms TV's live.  The entire 
> Galena Park  School District was witness to the assassination of 
> President John F. Kennedy, via live broadcast of the event. Most schools 
> across the nation likely experienced the same thing. So that was 
> probably THE event that sparked the 10 second broadcast delay being 
> inserted into all "Live" broadcasting we see today. Means that if we see 
> it, they LET it "slip" in.
> 
> 
> 
> Odyssey of Global 33, now that was an unbuttoned ending!  A Rod Serling 
> Special, Whew!
> 
> McG.
> 
> On 5/20/2020 4:26 PM, Spamster wrote:
>> Yeah, I didn't think it was likely that anyone would have known that, so
>> I thought I'd pass that along, since Idlewild was referred to so many
>> times in the episode, and someone might wonder where exactly are they
>> trying to fly to.
>>
>> On 5/20/2020 1:56 PM, McGrandpa wrote:
>>> Thanks for the trivia.  I've flown in/out of JFK and La Guardia
>>> several times each during my enlistment.  Never had an inkling JFK had
>>> been renamed!
>>>
>>> On 5/16/2020 10:53 PM, Spamster wrote:
>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l-07g7JvEEmrC3mxwQl_B4KmumozVglh/view?usp=sharing 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Trivia: For those that may not know, Idlewild airport was renamed John
>>>> F. Kennedy International Airport on December 24, 1963, a month and two
>>>> days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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[TZ] 054-The Odyssey of Flight 33.avi Spamster <user@domain.com> - 2020-05-16 23:53 -0400
  Re: [TZ] 054-The Odyssey of Flight 33.avi McGrandpa <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> - 2020-05-20 12:56 -0500
    Re: [TZ] 054-The Odyssey of Flight 33.avi Spamster <user@domain.com> - 2020-05-20 17:26 -0400
      Re: [TZ] 054-The Odyssey of Flight 33.avi McGrandpa <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> - 2020-05-21 02:12 -0500
        Re: [TZ] 054-The Odyssey of Flight 33.avi Spamster <user@domain.com> - 2020-05-21 09:24 -0400
      Re: [TZ] 054-The Odyssey of Flight 33.avi McGrandpa <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> - 2020-05-27 02:13 -0500
        Re: [TZ] 054-The Odyssey of Flight 33.avi Spamster <user@domain.com> - 2020-05-27 09:47 -0400
  Re: [TZ] 054-The Odyssey of Flight 33.avi "Stephen" <sbriggs99@gmail.com> - 2020-05-24 12:39 -0400

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