Fly The Buccaneer Route, Matey
International Talk Like A Pirate Day, held every year on September 19, is a made-up “holiday” created in 1995. While we doubt this National Airlines stewardess (that’s what they were called eight decades ago) actually talked like a pirate as she checked the passenger manifest for this flight, you never know. By the end of the 1930s, the National Airlines network spanned from New Orleans to Miami and the Caribbean on what it called the Buccaneer Route. National received three Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar airliners direct from the factory and flew them through the 1940s. Normally equipped with 15 passenger seats, one National Airlines Lodestar was equipped with bench seats for 26 passengers on Miami-to-Puerto Rico flights. More than half of the 625 Lodestars built were either commercial aircraft impressed by the U.S. military for service in World War II or were purpose-built C-60A military transports. lockheedmartin.com/codeonemagazine
Fly The Buccaneer Route, Matey
International Talk Like A Pirate Day, held every year on September 19, is a made-up “holiday” created in 1995. While we doubt this National Airlines stewardess (that’s what they were called eight decades ago) actually talked like a pirate as she checked the passenger manifest for this flight, you never know. By the end of the 1930s, the National Airlines network spanned from New Orleans to Miami and the Caribbean on what it called the Buccaneer Route. National received three Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar airliners direct from the factory and flew them through the 1940s. Normally equipped with 15 passenger seats, one National Airlines Lodestar was equipped with bench seats for 26 passengers on Miami-to-Puerto Rico flights. More than half of the 625 Lodestars built were either commercial aircraft impressed by the U.S. military for service in World War II or were purpose-built C-60A military transports. lockheedmartin.com/codeonemagazine