Transatlantic air travel: Then & Now

November 28, 2007

Shorts S23 Empire Flying Boats of the mid 1930s.


Video: YouTube

Of course these aircraft were used to service the British Empire… back in the days when it still had an empire.

Airbus 380 - Test Flight New York some 70 years later.


Video: Popular Mechanics via YouTube

Do you ever get those thoughts that just pop out and leave you… perhaps just a little disturbed. Well the thought that popped into my mind was how much the huge staircase, bar and the sleeping accommodation reminded me of the Titanic… even the name Titanic seemed to fit.



Written by Beam · Filed Under Our World, People, Technology, Then and Now, Video 

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