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Aviation History
1964
1964 - 2068.PDF
FLIGHT International, 16 July 1964 I Arrival without ticket or booking at Washington National Airport (this was a non-peak time, 5 p.m. on a Thursday evening). Seats are guaranteed 1 There is a man at the Eastern Air Lines' counter to provide information, otherwise just take a boarding pass out of a dispenser, and fill it in 3 Having handed the boarding pass to a member of the traffic staff at the gate marked Washington, walk out to the aircraft A When the 95 seats are full, or when the clock is on the hour, whichever is the sooner, the doors are closed and you are on your way. If the flight leaves full before the hour, another aircraft moves up to the ramp 5 There is neither food nor refreshments, and the two stewardesses' job is to sell you your ticket en route 6 After l±hr the 6 o'clock shuttle from Washington is over New York city, the fifth such flight in the last two hours 7 Although Washington National is one of the world's busiest airports, spectators are positively encouraged
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