Flight 96 - High, Hot, & Heavy

Flight 96 - High, Hot, & Heavy

Author: Av8rTony December 5, 2021 Duration: 1:22:30

Recorded on 01DEC2021

Welcome aboard Flight 96 of the Squawk Ident Podcast, High, Hot, & Heavy. On today’s flight Rob D. and I discuss removing passengers from a flight, unstable approaches, Special Qualifications Airports, the films Airplane! (1980) & Zero Hour (1957). We discuss mountainous terrain airports and we take a look back at the year 1953 and American Airlines’ launch of DC-7 on the New York to Los Angeles route. All this and more on this, the 96th episode of the Squawk Ident podcast.

references:

KPSP on AirNav.com

Airplane! (1980)

Zero Hour (1957)

Big Bear Airport L35

Introducing the DC-7

Idlewild Airport


chapters:

[02:44] Rob's Intro

[19:22] Tony's unstable approach

[33:00] TOGA

[51:20] Airplane! (1980)

[54:31] Zero Hour (1957)

[1:00:57] BigBear Airport L35

[1:09:36] AA launches the DC-7 

[1:11:31] Idlewild Airport


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