Boeing Stratocruiser

[worldofapp]

Thanks for this.

[swizzletik]

Yup, those were the glory days of air passenger travel! I've said it before, but those days all went to Hades when governments stepped in more and more to run the airlines, and big corporate greed micromanaged its airlines into sullen mediocrity!

[togekspertene]

Cool

[zoyclem]

You put up some good stuff. I've watched about a dozen of your videos and they all have been worth watching. And unlike some airplane aficionados you allow embedding. It's appreciated.

[blueblob4]

Thats incredible that it had two levels

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some question about psychology:

(1) Why do we enjoy flying?

(2) Why do we love air travelling?

(3) Why do we feel that in-flight meals are so interest and special?

(4) Why do we like dinning at 42000 feets high?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

[spitfireJEJ]

1. We don't.

2. We don't

3. We don't

4. We don't.

The romantic days of flying are sadly long gone.

[mistofoles]

@applesweeter (Sorry, slighkty drubk here) With regard to quwestions 3 and 4, for me, it's the logisitics involed in cooking and srivng a meal on and airborne plane where you're only kept i the air by 4 propellers,a nd there's no piped gas to cook your meal witjh, it's all self-contained...as to number 4, well, if it's a lomng flight, we have to eat as a case of neccissity!

[guspech]

theres a Stratocruiser that sits in front of the don q inn hotel/restaraunt in dodgeville wisconsin. (house on the rock)its awesome and needs some tlc

[Nobel200]

When Britain was Great!

[helmuthoorn]

A more relyable bird than the Lockheed Constellation.

[FullersRd]

I flew to the States on one of these beauties, a couple of times. I was shown the flight deck. It was enormous (I was very young). What an experience.

Bad weather forced a landing in pre-revolution Cuba. Havana airport was a wooden shed.

We had a sleeping birth, but it was too noisy. The flight engineer had to go out into the wings to check the motors, I seem to remember. He also had to release me from the WC after I got locked in! Hurrah for the BOAC junior jet club.

[grazyarnie]

Hi DrMasopic....I dont want to sound like a smart-ass...but the 377 in repairable conditions are still available....its called C-97 and is stored in the desert of Arizona.

Its a cargo or tanker version flown by the USAF...though the frame is a Boeing 377..maybe I could help....I would like to see one airborne too

[DrMasopic]

The first modern airliner indeed! Sweet! I am wondering though: are there any 377's left? If so, is it still flying, or at least repaireable?

[TonyFirelli]

You can buy one if your rich.

[MerleOberon]

would love to have travelled then, before it became a subway in the sky.

[zombieAndy1979]

Excellent video, my grandad would of loved to have seen this, he used to be an engineer for boac and test out some of the strats. Remember him telling me loads of stories when I was little.

Thanks for posting.

[320k]

excellent!

[stickmanpig]

great bit of video my favourite airliner.thanks

[fordroad]

A very good posting , truer words were never spoken regarding the expansion of air travel and Boeings new leadership in air travel over the next 60 years. Well Done