Airplanes. Is it possible that a family can get airplanes into their evolutionary DNA? How can it be that my grandfather, father, two-and-half brothers, and me … all somehow evolved into airplane people? Not enough time since Kitty Hawk for some biological change - but all else certainly has. Orville Wright’s one-man plane, managed to stay airborne for a few seconds and fly 120 feet. Our plane to Australia is longer than the first flight, is good for 17 hours - and holds more people than I will ever know.
This airport has evolved too. When I first saw LAX, it was sometimes still called Mines Field - and the first jet airliner had yet to land. My brothers and I watched the iconic restaurant theme building going up from our backyard, a yard that was soon engulfed by airport expansion - along with much of my boyhood ‘hood. Returning years later, I looked down at that restaurant from my “office” - the LAX control tower. Today’s tower now looks down on it. The original Los Angeles Hanger #1, that I walked past to climb stairs into my first airliner, is still there. It would easily fit inside the shopping mall that holds today’s international gates.
Granddad too saw remarkable changes. WWI aerial photos of his men and horses in 1918 were taken from an English bi-plane - before the RAF was even formed. After that war, Granddad joined Australia’s new force - an airforce - the RAAF. Dad flew in the next war, Don and I took wing in Vietnam, then he went from fighter jets into an airliner cockpit. Bill also was an airline pilot - and kid brother Pat got his first job at LAX, and still works for USAir.
Only now has all this change produced the tools to let me contemplate all of this - to let me explore a tiny blink of history. It is 111 years since Kitty Hawk, 100 since the start of Granddad’s war, and 50 from mine. I now can use laptop libraries, video calls to the other side of the planet, huge planes to jet to anywhere from airports the size of cities, and … spell check.
- Seatpocket Stew
This airport has evolved too. When I first saw LAX, it was sometimes still called Mines Field - and the first jet airliner had yet to land. My brothers and I watched the iconic restaurant theme building going up from our backyard, a yard that was soon engulfed by airport expansion - along with much of my boyhood ‘hood. Returning years later, I looked down at that restaurant from my “office” - the LAX control tower. Today’s tower now looks down on it. The original Los Angeles Hanger #1, that I walked past to climb stairs into my first airliner, is still there. It would easily fit inside the shopping mall that holds today’s international gates.
Granddad too saw remarkable changes. WWI aerial photos of his men and horses in 1918 were taken from an English bi-plane - before the RAF was even formed. After that war, Granddad joined Australia’s new force - an airforce - the RAAF. Dad flew in the next war, Don and I took wing in Vietnam, then he went from fighter jets into an airliner cockpit. Bill also was an airline pilot - and kid brother Pat got his first job at LAX, and still works for USAir.
Only now has all this change produced the tools to let me contemplate all of this - to let me explore a tiny blink of history. It is 111 years since Kitty Hawk, 100 since the start of Granddad’s war, and 50 from mine. I now can use laptop libraries, video calls to the other side of the planet, huge planes to jet to anywhere from airports the size of cities, and … spell check.
- Seatpocket Stew
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