Customer Reviews - NWT Air Lockheed Electra - End of Service
Airline Profile Series Vol. 2 - Limited Edition DVD
PHILIP MILLS, Leopold, Vic., Australia, JUL 23, 2004:
Many thanks for the 2 Lockheed Electra L-188 DVD's which arrived safely today, such excellent prompt service!
They are a wonderful record of this most magnificent and beautiful aircraft and I can assure you will give me many more hours of enjoyment on repeat viewings.
My first flight on a "proper" plane was as a 16 year old on a QANTAS Electra, VH-ECB flying from Melbourne, Australia to Wellington, New Zealand in December, 1965, and return six weeks later.
The biggest thrill was being allowed to visit the cockpit for about 20 minutes, and getting the crew's autographs as we flew across the Tasman Sea. I had worked after school and Saturday mornings as a chemist's delivery boy for two years to save the fare!
Although I've since flown on different aircraft, it is the Electra that is so dear to my heart after all these years. And it saddens me to realize that I have missed the chance to ever fly, see or even hear an Electra again.
Can anything be more beautiful and distinctive than those big square-tipped props, the long engine covers running across the top of the wing, the big, black jet exhausts, and the sound of those Allisons singing? Yes I'll admit I'm somewhat biased!
And I'll also admit to being emotional and having to wipe the odd tear away while viewing these two fascinating DVDs, you don't know just how much they mean to me, for nearly forty years I've harboured a wish to relive that flight or even see an Electra again. Your DVDs are the next best thing.
Once again, many thanks for the great service, and also thank you for producing a lasting record of this most capable of planes.
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