Boeing 747 Emergency Slide Deployment

Rooftop landing evacuation drill.

Korean Air HL7463 MSN 20770 Boeing 747-2B5B First B1 Flight April 16, 1973

 

JW action sequence.

B-18208 China Airlines Boeing 747-409

Vintage LAX - SUD Caravelle Charter Express N905MW

LBBC photo dated May 1980. Aircraft encountered wake turbulence from a Delta TriStar and made hard landing ATL June 19, 1980. Assumed scrapped.  

United Airlines Boeing 747 LAX 1970

Tried to fit as many "elements" as we could into each picture back then.

Vintage LAX Ghost Town Pictures

A reader recently commented about the "Ghost Town" near LAX.

A view of the "Surfridge" area while arriving to the East on the North complex.

I seem to recall an incident in a '63 T-Bird in this area... 

This shot by LBBC shows what was the premier spotting location at LAX back in the day. We spent many hours there. 

A warp in the fabric of time allowed us to briefly revisit the site back '07. 

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