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Gulf Air Lockheed L-1011 TriStar "Golden Falcon," Delivery Flight, January, 1976

Updated January 22, 2008

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Masthead

United Express Beechcraft 1900D at Steve Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Trans World Airlines (TWA) Martin 4-0-4, circa 1950s

(Photo courtesy of TWA)

Scandanavian Airlines System (SAS) retro colors on their Airbus A319 twinjet

(Photo Courtesy of SAS)

Air Cal BAe 146 Commuter

Star Alliance Airbus A340 formation

Photo courtesy of Star Alliance/South African Airways (SAA)

A KLM Douglas DC-2, DeHavilland Rapide and Junkers transport on a brick
hardstand adjacent to a sod field somewhere in Europe in the late 1930s.

M. Daniels Collections

Nasa Boeing 747 Space Shuttle Transporter

Eastern Air Transport Ford TriMotor

Trans World Airlines Boeing 767 at night, Los Angeles

United Air Lines Douglas DC-3 Mainliner

Great American Airways Douglas DC-9 Series 10, Santa Maria, California

Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 Series 100

Photo courtesy of Delta Air Lines

Aer Lingus Airbus A330 on short final to Los Angeles International Airport

Two Delta Air Lines TriStars and a Western Air Lines Douglas DC-10 at Los Angeles

Burlington Air Express Douglas DC-8 Super 63F Frieghter Arriving Los Angeles

Braniff International Boeing 747SP (Special Performance) at Dallas-Ft. Worth

Douglas DC-8-71F of ATI

Pacific Air Transport Ryan N-1 Monoplane

Pan Am Airbus A300B

PSA Lockheed L-1011 TriStar "Mother Grinningbird" on the Flight Test line
at Palmdale, California

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Pan American Airways System Boeing 307 Stratoliner Over Oshkosh

Updated January 22, 2008

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Significant Achievements of 2006

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Adelaide's New Terminal Marks Its First Anniversary

Opened in October, 2005, the Multi-user Intergrated Terminal (MUIT) wins the Achievement of the Year Award from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport...

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Scandanavian Airlines System Boeing MD-87

Written Off: October 8, 2001

The Lage Viking

A look back in the archives finds that a Jet Airliner in our Collection has met Long Ago with a terrible fate...

by Mark S. "Bear" Daniels
Publisher, ILIPS Group

The sad thing about Aviation Photography is that sometimes, just for a moment, you find yourself looking through an old collection of photos, researching the registration number of an aircraft you find there, only to learn that the aircraft and even more sadly, it's passengers, crew, have met with a terrible fate.

At ILIPS Group, during the processing of the scans necessary for our 2006 - 2007 expansion, that an MD-87, photographed at Long Beach, California, while awaiting the first flight of the Boeing C-17A Globemaster III, met a tragic and unfortunate fate as the result of a ground collision in fog, with a Cessna Citation, on October 8, 2001, with the devastating loss of 110 passengers and crew, at Milano-Linate Airport (LIN), ten years after its first flight, which it is possible, we were photographing this day. In that regard, the taxi past and takeoff roll. We still have other images to look through to determine if we also caught the landing, which is distinctly possible. If we did, you will find them added and connected to this story later.

The accident details are contained at the Flight Safety Foundation's "Aviation Safety Network at:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20011008-0&lang=en

We will not be repeating the details here under any circumstances. The story has been told enough and long before we learned we had the images in our possession. The aircraft is depicted here in its old color scheme and is provided Fair Use for any and all publications, historians or individuals, wishing to utilize the photograph of rpublishing, historical or collection purposes. If you wish to credit this publication, please credit:

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...or you may simply credit the photo to your personal or your publication's "Collection." It is our policy not to profit off tragedies that befall others. We are merely here to disseminate information, historical records and news. Compensation is therefore not required, and if any is presented to us, it will be denied and returned immediately. We ask that you respect our wishes in this particular area:

"Death be not profitable!"

- Decree of a Wise and Just African King

There are four historical notes:

1) On this day this aircraft flew, the first flight of the C-17A Globemaster III prototype occurred. Those with knowledge of the first flight date of this aircraft can determine by contrasting the date of its first flight to the first flight of the C-17, whether or not this MD-87 twinjet was indeed departing on its first flight.

2) This aircraft was operating from the Flight Test Ramp at the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Douglas Aircraft Company facility, Long Beach, California, and was in "Flight Test." Flight Tests usually meant the aircraft was prepared for flight, flight certification and delivery, with FAA Certification and delivery often taking place within the first three flights of a test vehicle.

3) The third historical note is as perhaps, ironic as it is tragic. On the day this aircraft was photographed, a Cessna 210 with three people onboard, a mother, her son and daughter, all three doctors, attempted to take off from Long beach Airport (Dougherty Field) and crashed just off the field near the Runway's end. This occurred after takeoff from an intersecting runway utilized by General Aviation at the field. All three people onboard perished in front of thousands on hand to watch the first flight of the C-17.

4) The McDonnell Douglas Corporaton has since been taken over by Boeing, with the facilities South of Lakewood Boulevard demolished, except for the Flight Test ramp, which was still operational with the last Boeing 717s, a follow on to the MD-87. The production line was still open the last time I visited in 2005, however, the last Boeing 717 has been produced, and production of all DC-9 / MD-80 / B717 aircraft has now ceased. The grounds that once housed DC-10 and MD-11 production, along with Douglas Aircraft headquarters, were still being plowed for condominiums.

Update: A Third Image (Below) Was Found at Time of Going to Press...
Update # 2: Fourth Found Image Added After Going to Press...

"Fair Use" Graphic From Actual Item Scanned ~ Lightened to give "new" appearance. Actual item shows signs of age. Scan of Aged image and "like New" image available in large format (poster size) on request from:

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Courtesy: The Cody Allen Newton Collection

New, One Stop flight utilizing an Advanced-Technology Airbus A320 Family twinjet, similar to the A319 seen here, makes a single stopover at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport

Photo Courtesy of China Southern / Ruffolo Communications

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...With a Twist!

Notice anything different about this stamp? The Stamp is from the 50th Anniversary of Powered Flight, which means, December 17, 1953!

Look at the cancellation -- "November 16, 2006!"

There are still plenty of these stamps unused in collections around the World, and some Stamp vendors will mail you collector's stamps in an envelope with postage paid in "old stamps!"

Remember, an unused stamp in the United States NEVER loses it's value until after cancellation, in regards to use. As for Collecting, they can be quite valuable so look at those envelopes...that cancelled stamp might already be worth more than it's value, cancelled or otherwise!

"Fair Use" Graphic From Actual Item Scanned ~ Lightened to give "new" appearance. Actual item shows signs of age. Scan of Aged image and "like New" image available in large format (poster size) on request from:

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Courtesy: The Cody Allen Newton Collection

Photo Courtesy of Delta Air L:ines

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Photo Courtesy of Boeing

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Parade of Airliners

Construction Continues...

Updated June 16, 2007

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Swiss Airbus A340 on climbout over Santa Monica Bay after takeoff from LAX

A DHL Super DC-8 Takes on Cargo at Denver International Airport

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 departing Bob Hope International Airport, Burbank, CA