Transcon Luxury: Northwest’s Unique Strats

[RStretton]

The Stratocruiser was the first word in luxury if not economics. Northwest used its Strats in a unique fashion but they were just as luxurious:

https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/airline-history-blog/transcon-luxury-northwests-unique-strats

Northwest Orient Boeing B-377 Stratocruiser by rstretton, on Flickr

[kaitak]

Sadly. I never saw a Strat in service and by the time I started spotting at London airport, all the BOAC ones that had been taken out of service had been disposed of.
I did see an Israeli Air Force one at Gatwick in the late 1960s and several C-97s in various locations mainly in the US including the magnificent Mexican civil-registered on, XA-PII, at Tucson which sadly, eventually got scrapped. They must have been a wonderful sight and sound.
I think I have most of the Aeroclassics models and they are among my favourites. A glaring omission is a model of a Transocean Air Lines Strat which, albeit for a short 2 years, operated one of the largest fleets including most of the fleet of BOAC.

[RStretton]

Sadly. I never saw a Strat in service and by the time I started spotting at London airport, all the BOAC ones that had been taken out of service had been disposed of.
I did see an Israeli Air Force one at Gatwick in the late 1960s and several C-97s in various locations mainly in the US including the magnificent Mexican civil-registered on, XA-PII, at Tucson which sadly, eventually got scrapped. They must have been a wonderful sight and sound.
I think I have most of the Aeroclassics models and they are among my favourites. A glaring omission is a model of a Transocean Air Lines Strat which, albeit for a short 2 years, operated one of the largest fleets including most of the fleet of BOAC.

Yeah agree a Taloa Strat is well overdue. This video on YouTube has some good NW Strat footage in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJdnAymPRzI