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• 倍金萬
• 2020/03/30 (Mon) 09:02
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Sam Chui, a leading aviation youtuber, reports on the current global aviation situation.

https://youtu.be/ypBlLvbNero

Less than half the number of planes that were flying around the world before this coronavirus scare are now flying. The planes that are not flying are resting their wings somewhere, and near L.A., there are quite a few parked at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville.

Also, the life span of a passenger plane is said to be about 30 years at the most, but in this video by Sam Chui, a 51 year old Douglas DC-8 is flying as a cargo plane to carry medical equipment and medicine related to viruses. It is nostalgic. This DC-8 was the first large airliner I flew on in my life. At that time, Boeing's B707 was also active in long-distance flights along with this DC-8.

I flew Pan American DC-8 from Tokyo International Airport to JFK in USA on June 20, 1970. The DC-8 in Sam Chui's video is indeed a DC-8, but the four engines are much larger and shorter than the DC-8. This is a turbofan jet, which is the mainstream today. The original was an elongated turbojet without a fan.

The following link shows a lot of old footage. In both Japan and the U.S., everyone was dressed in suits when boarding passenger planes. This is unthinkable nowadays. I too boarded a Pan Am DC-8 in my new blue summer suit.

https://youtu.be/R5qCbwWq-d0

• 倍金萬
• 2020/03/31 (Tue) 09:08
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Today's post will be a bit emotional. Every day, every day, there are virus-related topics and posts that I don't have to read myself, but I can't help but be curious about them and read them here or watch the news on TV, and my onlooker's guts make me do so.

And since I can't leave my house, the information makes me feel even more depressed. So I wrote about the aforementioned DC-8 airliner as I felt like it. If you are not in a hurry, please read on.



At that time, Boeing also sent the B707, the same four-engine turbojet airliner, to this market in response to Douglas.

That B707 is mentioned in the song 'Early Morining Rain' by Gordon Lightfoot. In the lyrics ♪ Out on runway number nine a big 707's set to go ♪.

Presley version ： https://youtu.be/6xBnivXp0fA

In my first foreign country, this America, uptown ・ in an old pre-war high-rise apartment in Manhattan, on a holiday, with nothing to do. On a holiday, I was staring out the window with nothing to do, when I heard this song. Although I didn't really understand the lyrics, I was soaked in the song as if it had put a loop around my homesick heart. I am sure everyone has a song that has a similar emotional impact on them.

Lyrics(Gordon Lightfoot version)

In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand
With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand
Now, I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved ones so
In the early morning rain with no place to go

Out on runway number nine a big 707's set to go
But, I'm stuck here in the grass where the cold wind blows
Now, the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast women all were fast
Well, there she goes, my friend, well she's going down at last

Hear the mighty engines roar - see the silver bird on high
She's away and westward bound - far above the clouds she'll fly

There the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shines
She'll be flying over my home in about three hours time

This old airport's got me down - it's no earthly good to me
'Cause I'm stuck here on the ground as cold and drunk as I can be
You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train
So, I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain

You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train
So, I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain

• びっくりこ
• 2020/03/31 (Tue) 23:36
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Mr. Baikin
I looked for it on youtube and found
PPM singing it, and it was dated 1966.
PPM was also thin at that time.

• びっくりこ
• 2020/03/31 (Tue) 23:57
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The last time I saw them perform was at the Hollywood Bowl, a long time ago, and I was surprised to see how big Mary was
.

• 倍金萬
• 2020/04/01 (Wed) 09:48
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#1503, #1504 Surprised,

PPM, huh, I miss it.

I frequently watch them on YouTube too. I often watch them on YouTube, but they were all in black and white back then.
That makes them seem even older. Also, Mary was as thin as they say
and her style was outstanding.

You heard PPM, John Baez, and all the other folk songs on the radio.
Others, like The Mamas&California Dreamin' by The Papas, I used to listen to a lot.

https://youtu.be/N-aK6JnyFmk

Including this song, Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild, Scott McKenzie's San Francisco
and many other surf music songs. music and I adored
It Never Rains In Southern California.

https://youtu.be/rMbATaj7Il8

https://youtu.be/7I0vkKy504U

https://youtu.be/ZXkk65PdKyM