Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

 

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[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I remember those in North Central Airlines colors at the Kalamazoo airport. We called them "Rubber Ducky Airlines because they had a (dignified) flying duck or goose painted in profile on the tail.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I like the two-tone effect, fer sure. But it'd be better with a rubber ducky on it! (Or okay sure some dignified bird.)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Here's a website with some North Central Airlines planes with the duck on the tail. Evidently it's not actually the same aircraft type, in spite of the resemblance. I never learned many of those aircraft beyond that they were Convair turboprops.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I wanna make some joke scoffing at how you don't know yer Convair turboprop 15c-1 from yer Convair turboprop 15c-3....

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Evidently it's worse than that. I can't tell the Convair CV-240 family (the Northwest Airlines plane) from a Douglas DC-4 (the Buffalo Freightliner in your postcard). The fin/rudder shapes are similar but not the same.

For all that I'm a fan of the DC-3, I never really learned what a DC-4 looks like. I blame it on the plastic model companies' obsession with WW II.