Comments on: the impermanence of modern technology/2019/06/03/the-impermanence-of-modern-technology/various and sundry notionsWed, 05 Jun 2019 02:20:39 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: David Davis/2019/06/03/the-impermanence-of-modern-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-1297Tue, 04 Jun 2019 23:54:29 +0000/?p=3699#comment-1297In reply to whbeebe.

Glad you got to see it the other day.

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]]>By: whbeebe/2019/06/03/the-impermanence-of-modern-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-1296Tue, 04 Jun 2019 23:43:04 +0000/?p=3699#comment-1296In reply to David Davis.

I’m certain that this particular aircraft was a charter aircraft before it came here. That means the last owner put in all new seating in the passenger cabin. The Convairliner as it came to be known was a favorite of many airlines, as it was one of the very first with a pressurized cabin. Later variants became larger, able to transport more passengers, and towards the end of the the types’ life the piston engines were replaced with suitable turboprop engines.

I’m interested in the 240 for a number of historical reasons, two of which were: (1) It was used by President Kennedy in 1960 as his private campaign aircraft. (2) It’s infamous as a charter aircraft that crashed and killed just about everybody in the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1977.

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]]>By: David Davis/2019/06/03/the-impermanence-of-modern-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-1295Tue, 04 Jun 2019 09:21:36 +0000/?p=3699#comment-1295The cabin looks more modern than I would have imagined.

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