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Hop
onboard for a real
NOSTALGIA TRIP
Here
is your
Boarding Pass
You have been upgraded to
"Business
Coach"
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SUNDANCE
KIDS
Thanks
to Trudi and Henry Sandoval for sending us this lovely treasure
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to
quote another great Sundance line,
"WHO ARE
THOSE GUYS ??"
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1.
Kathy Buskirk
2. Lonnie
Mark
3. Mary Lou Swirsky
4. Carloyn Nagle
5
Carol (Bong)
Cross.
6. Robert
(Bob) J. Ailes
7. Juanita
Martinez ??
8. Judy
Ellis
9.
Evelyn Begley
sundancekids@hughesairwest.com
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Hughes
Airwest "SUNDANCER"
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The
Sundancer first appeared in seat pockets
aboard Hughes Airwest flights in April of
1972. The magazine was published monthly
by Flightime Magazines with Hughes Airwest
providing editorial input. the magazine
proved to be a great promotional tool for
educating our passengers about the
many wonderful destinations served by Hughes
airwest.
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Hughes
Airwest "SUNDANCER"
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The
Sundancer first appeared in seat pockets
aboard Hughes Airwest flights in April of
1972. The magazine was published monthly
by Flightime Magazines with Hughes Airwest
providing editorial input. the magazine
proved to be a great promotional tool for
educating our passengers about the
many wonderful destinations served by Hughes
airwest.
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The
great "Top Banana" add campaign
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A
tribute to the
F-27
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F/A
Karen Vercellino had requested to fly the
last Fairchild trip and was granted permission.
The last trip however, came suddenly
and without even a day's notice. As
luck would have it, Karen was on a RON and
flew THE LAST TRIP. I think it was
meant to be.
She
has written down some of her "Fairchild
Memories" -- hope you enjoy them. Thank
you, Karen, for sharing.
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...and
"Thanks"
to Cindy and Tommy Tinker for sending us
this poignant tribute to the F-27 written
by F/A Karen Vercellino. We have reprinted
her tribute from one of the
RW publications...
Email
us if you would like a text
copy.
F-27@hughesairwest.com
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Today
a love affair ended for me. A love
affair that spanned the better part of 13
years of my life and over 2 million miles.
To me, the F-27 was more than another
plane to 'work' -- it was a way of life
that can never return. To some, the
F-27 was small, noisy and far too slow.
It was old and a misfit in today's
world. But to me it was beautiful.
It was 40 tourists crowded up to the
windows over Grand Canyon, and an hour and
a half flight between Las Vegas and the
Canyon because we spent 30 minutes circling
Havasupai Falls. It was sunrise over
Lake Powell, and sunset over Cedar Breaks.
It was "call ahead" for
Mexican food in El Centro, and in the summer,
it was fighting flies who wanted their share.
It was breaking out of the clouds
for the first time in North Bend and seeing
that green bridge, almost close enough to
touch, it seemed. It was sleeping
among the sacks of mail on the way to Sacramento
at 2 a.m. and trying to catch a couple more
hours sleep once you got there - but it
was hard to do, it was cold and there were
no blankets. All the crew: had claimed
them as mementos because they had "Bonanza",
"Pacific", or "West Coast"
written on them. The F-27 was playing
poker and dancing all night at "Pat
and Charlie's" in Inyokern (population
261), and then serving coffee in the after
hours coffee shop in exchange for a free
breakfast.
Looking
on the minus side, it was 130 degrees in
the cabin in Yuma; it was airsick people
on a daily basis; and once it was going
into Salt Lake on a clear summer day, and
broken bones and 2 pins in a leg the doctor
said might never heal right. But for
me, I would have overlooked the minuses
forever in exchange for the years on that
"screamer", "shake and bake",
"Polish Lear Jet", or whatever
you might have called it.
More
than that, the crews who flew the F-27 were
a special type of brotherhood. You
flew together, played together, and at times
fought together -- but at least you were
all together. The other airlines and
crews who never knew such closeness and
affinity to each other have missed out on
a different way of life -- a better one,
I believe. So today, for me, a love
affair ended -- the F-27's are gone.
Anyone
got a pass to Saudi Arabia?
--- written
by Hughes Airwest Flight Attendant Karen
Vercellino shortly
after the last RW F-27 flight in 1973 ---
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This
great portrait of Howard Hughes,
painted by Mario Zamparelli,
hung for many years in the Board
Room of our beautiful Corporate
Headquarters in San Mateo. At
the time of the acquisition
of Hughes Airwest by Republic
in 1980, the portrait was presented
by Will Lummis, cousin of HH
and administrator of the Hughes
estate,to Russ Stephenson, long
time President of Hughes Airwest.
In
1998, Russ Stevenson presented
the painting along with many
of his other Hughes Airwest
files and memoirs, to the Special Collections Library of the University of Texas at Dallas.
This
Website is deeply indebted to
Russ and Vivian Stephenson for
sharing these wonderful memories
with us. We hope you enjoy
them.
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The Howard Hughes
Contribution
to the Special Collections
Department
of the
University of Texas
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The
History of Aviation program
in the Special Collections Department
at the University of Texas at
Dallas Library has added Howard
Hughes' aviation and aeronautics
materials to the collection.
Included are the executive files
of Hughes Airwest, the last
of three airlines owned by Hughes,
as well as some materials about
Northeast Airlines.
The
focal point is a large picture
of Hughes, the original painted
by Mario Armond Zamparelli,
a longtime Hughes associate.
Will
Lummis, cousin of Mr. Hughes
and administrator of the Hughes
estate, and Jack Real, a longtime,
close associate of Hughes, officiated
at the transfer ceremony, and
offered comments about the Hughes'
contributions to his many interests,
aviation and otherwise. Mr.
Real gave a fascinating recount
of his twenty years of close
association with Mr. Hughes.
Mr.
Hughes was born in Houston in
a family involved in the oil?tooling
drilling business, which became
the Hughes Tool Company.
Russell
Stephenson, president of Hughes
Airwest at the time of the sale
of the airline to Republic Airlines
as part of the resolution of
the estate, and Bill Vogel,
advertising account executive
for all of the Hughes Summa
activities participated in the
ceremony. Mr. Vogel represented
Mr. Zamparelli, who was unable
to attend.
Dr. Larry
Sall, Associate Library Director,
and head of the Special Collections
Department, said, "We deeply
appreciate the addition of the
Hughes' materials to our growing
collections of aviation and
aeronautic files."
"In
particular, we appreciate attendance
by the and the remarks of Mr.
Lummis and Mr. Real which brought
special interest and realism
to the proceedings," Sall
remarked.
The Special
Collections Department contains
General James Doolittle's personal
papers, the Rosendahl Collection
on Lighter?Than?Air aviation,
the CAT/Air America Archives,
one of the nation's best collections
on World War I aviation, and
many other important collections
of aviation history.
Dr.
Larry Sall, Associate Library
Director
For Special Collections
The
University of Texas at Dallas
P.O.
Box 830643 (or)
2601 N. Floyd
Road
Richardson, Texas 75083?0643
(972)
883?2570
(972) 883?2473 FAX
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Diagram
for Success
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First
Day of Issue
Commerative
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Wings
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Thanks
to Capt. Stan Baumwald
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Spirit
of Gamma
Dedication
May
27, 1976
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Welcome
Aboard
Hughes Airwest
Employee
Handbook
produced in 1977
There
are few coprporations in today's world that
have employee handbooks as comprehensive as this one
on was. It was produced in-house and printed by
our very own Hughes Airwest Print Shop For a real nostalgia
trip, take a moment and click through the pages, it's
all there, pass policy, benefits, history, routes, equipment
and much more.
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First
Flight Certificate
September 17, 1976
This
"First Flight" certificate was presented to
all passengers onboard the maiden flight of "The
Spirit of Gamma."
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The
"Yes" Campaign
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A
really great article about Hughes Airwest
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from
AIR TRANSPORT WORLD
April 1978
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Air Transport
Wolrd, the premeir publication of the airline
industry in the 70's published this article
about Hughes Airwest in their April 1976
issue. The article presents a great
outside opinion on just hew far we had come
since those ark days of the original Air
West merger in 1968 and the 1970 take over
by Summa
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