Am interested to know the registration of a Lockheed Lodestar, operated by the ‘Herald Tribune in 1947 as a “Flying Newsroom”.
(see the attached newspaper clipping)
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In 1937 ‘Toronto Globe and Mail’ operated a DH.89 registered CF-BBG for a short time as a “Flying Newsroom”.
And so did the “London Free Press Printing Company” of London, Ontario when they operated a Cessna T-50 Crane 1 registered CF-DCL in 1946.
Martin
By: wieesso - 11th July 2018 at 12:32
@ianwoodward9 – answered!
By: ianwoodward9 - 8th July 2018 at 17:05
I have sent you a PM, wieesso.
By: wieesso - 14th June 2018 at 06:39
Thanks longshot
By: longshot - 11th June 2018 at 17:07
From Peter Marson’s Lockheed Twins (Air Britain) p371, the Chicago Tribune had a Lodestar C-60A-1-LO (Wright Cyclones) from14Dec45, registration NC61521 , civil conversion by L.A.C 29Nov46,sold to Fruehauf Trailers 27Nov48…with various corporate owners till belly landed Brownsville 20Apr79 … The Lodestar’s main user was tribune journalist John Werkley who ,by then with TIME, was killed with a dozen other US newsmen in a KLM Constellation crash in India , 1949.
The B-17 mentioned was used by the Tribune’s opinionated owner Robert McCormick http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/09/08/230823/index.htm
By: J Boyle - 11th June 2018 at 16:16
As I understand it, the B-17 was an executive transport rather than used for news gathering operations.
By: T J Johansen - 11th June 2018 at 08:28
Chicago Tribune had this B-17G.
https://thejivebombers.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/467/
T J
By: J Boyle - 11th June 2018 at 05:13
The Detroit Daily News had a neat Lockheed Orion with a camera pod on the leading edge of a wing…with an aperture cover.
Also, the Des Moines paper had a plane (a Travel Air?) and the Daily Oklahoman had a Travel Air.
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June 10, 2018 at 9:35 pm