A Traveler Meets Air Traffic Control
Documentary (1963)
An FAA worker explains how his organization works to a fellow passenger while on a flight from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Sikorsky S-58C
Registration N878, c/n 58-350 built in 1958.
Landing at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD/KORD).
TWA's Boeing 707-131 on the right.
Douglas DC-8 on the right.
Various Aircraft
At Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD/KORD).
On the left, a Lockheed Constellation and a Vickers Viscount on its right.
On the right, two Douglas DC-8.
In the far background, from right to the left, a Douglas DC-4, a Douglas DC-6 and another Douglas DC-4.
Foreground on the left, is a Lockheed L-188A Electra of Eastern Air Lines.
In the background, from left to right, a Douglas DC-6, two Boeing 720-022 and another DC-6, all these aircraft from United Air Lines.
In the background left, two Douglas DC-8 of United Air Lines.
On the background right, a Lockheed Constellation then a Boeing 707 and another Boeing 707-131 all of them from TWA-Trans World Airlines.
Boeing 707-131
At Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD/KORD).
Lockheed L-188A Electra & Douglas DC-8
At Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD/KORD).
Lockheed Electra on the left, Douglas DC-8 on the right.
Douglas DC-8-21
At Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD/KORD). United's logo.
Landing at Los Angeles International Airport.
Douglas DC-8-21 & Convair 990A Coronado
In the background, rather blurry but well recognizable, a Convair 990A Coronado of AA.
Douglas DC-8-51
United's logo.
Douglas DC-8-51
Convair F-106A Delta Dart
Serial 58-0783 c/n 8-24-114. Moved to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) in 1984. sent to AEL Inc. in 1989 and converted to a QF-106A drone. Shot down by an AIM-120 Feb 21, 1992.
Cessna 182F Skylane
Registration N3306U, c/n 18254706 built in 1963. Brand new at the time of filming.
Beechcraft 23 Musketeer
Registration N2390J, c/n M-344 built in 1963. Brand new at the time of filming.
Douglas DC-7B
No doubt about the DC-7 versus the DC-6, it has the DC-7 name on the tail fin, and the row of window match correctly the DC-7.
Boeing 720-024B
Boeing 720-022 & Douglas DC-6 & Vickers 745D Viscount
Front to back, with UAL's logo. A United's DC-8 taxiing in the background.
Vickers 745D Viscount & Douglas DC-8-21
Registration N7457, c/n 212. Crashed into a mountain in Columbia in March, 1982. The Douglas DC-8-21 wear United's logo.
Boeing 707-351C
Douglas DC-6
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See also
- Beechcraft Musketeer
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 720
- Cessna 182
- Convair 880/990
- Convair F-106 Delta Dart
- Douglas DC-4
- Douglas DC-6
- Douglas DC-7
- Douglas DC-8
- Lockheed Constellation
- Lockheed L-188 Electra
- Sikorsky H-34
- Vickers Viscount
- American Airlines
- Continental Airlines
- Delta Air Lines
- Eastern Air Lines
- Northwest Orient Airlines
- Trans World Airlines
- United Air Lines