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Nice video of DIA (DEN)

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  1. Tcar

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    Made by "Wings Over the Rockies Museum" and local PBS.

    History, for first Denver airport to Stapleton to DIA.

    Extensive tour of DIA.

    Half hour... interesting...
     
  2. jcurry

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    Is there a link?
     
  3. Texas Forever

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    Believe or not, I miss Stapleton.
     
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    I was working on this painting while listening to D.B. Cooper doing his thing at SEA in 1971.
     
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  6. Texas Forever

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    I can not imagine flying those planes in a Colorado winter.
     
  7. Tcar

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    Oops, the link did not appear...
    The presenter is sort of a goofball...

     
  8. Bob Parks

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    They flew the mail in it , too, in 1926.
     
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  10. Tcar

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    Regarding the above...
    They flew out of an 'airfield' in what is now Denver's Park Hill neighborhood... near where Stapleton Airport used to be.

    From Wiki:
    "Colorado Airways
    Colorado Airways was awarded Airmail Route CAM 12 between Pueblo, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, with interim stops in Denver and Colorado Springs.[14] Hissong was assigned flying a feeder leg between Pueblo and Amarillo, Texas, on the inauguration 31 May. Colorado Airways lost its airmail route contract 1 October 1927 and less than a week later the route was turned over to Western Air Express (WAE). Dave (Hissong) continued flying the route between Denver and Cheyenne under the new owner of CAM 12, WAE who already had the CAM 4 contract."
     
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    I read where a Pioneer Airmail pilot was flying in Wyoming and encountered a whiteout. His DH-4 started to lose airspeed and began to fly very rough. It eventually stopped flying and pitched a little bit nose down. He just sat there. He had flown into a gradual slope deep in snow and his airplane was stopped. He said that he had an idea of where he was and took the sack of mail and hiked to a road and came to a farmhouse. They had a phone and he called his station to tell them where he was. The next spring they went back to the airplane, smoothed out a strip in the sage, and flew the airplane out . M Image Unavailable, Please Login any stories like this but few ended as well.
     
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    Beautiful stuff, Bob... Thanks.
     

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