Submitted by Ed Dietz
Location and Names Unknown, October 1973
Ed Dietz, far right
Braniff Airlines Flight Simulator Equipment, Dallas Love Field, Texas
E – Link Boeing 727 Flight Simulator Computer Control Panel 10/1974
This Simulator was located at the Braniff Maintenance Facility, Dallas Love Field.
F- Link Boeing 727_MK 1 Power Control Panel 10/1974. Dallas Love Field
G- Link727_Area & Chart Recorder, 10/1974. Dallas Love Field
Historical data and photo submitted by Robert Roll, former Braniff Airline
employee
Historical data and photo submitted by Robert Roll, former Braniff Airline
Midway employee
Dallas Love Approach (DAL), Texas, October 1974
H-RMV Runway 13
The Rigid Model Visual System was designed and constructed by Redifon Corp of Great Britain. It consisted of a GE color projector mounted on the simulator cab with optics and screens in front of the Captain and Co-pilot. The images were generated by a Philips Color camera on a track mounted , servo controlled gantry in front of an approximately 15’ X 70’ vertical rigid model. The rigid model was a universal airport; however, the navigational aids could be changed to simulate various national/international airports to facilitate more realistic training. This system was controlled by a Texas Instruments Model 880 mini-computer (model number from memory.. may be wrong) Quite the “State of the Art” at the time. The Rigid Model Visual System was located in a special air conditioned room in the corner of an end hangar bay at Braniff’s Maintenance Facility at Dallas Love Field.
The remainder of the collection is of various aircraft Braniff flew as well as a few of other airlines taken at various times and places during my career.
Submitted by Ed Dietz
Local Coordinator Conference, New York, August 2-3, 1973
Ed Dietz, Manager Morgantown FSS, West Virginia (unknown position). Rest unknown.
Submitted by Ed Dietz
Easter Region ATO Chiefs Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, October, 1973
Ed Dietz, Manager Morgantown FSS, West Virginia, second row, sixth from
left. Remainder unknown.
Submitted by Ed Dietz
Easter Region ATO Chiefs Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 3, 1971
Names unknown
Submitted by Ed Dietz
AFSS South Hub Managers Meeting, Leesburg, Virginia, May 7, 1991
Left to Right: Jeff Bounds (Salisbury, MD FSS), Adam Greco (Millville, New Jersey AFSS), Jim Asbury (Elkins AFSS), Ed Dietz (Leesburg AFSS HUB Manager), and Jimmie Jefferson (Newport News, Virginia FSS.
Submitted by Ed Dietz
Management Training School, Lawton, Oklahoma, July 1971
Ed Dietz, front row, fourth from right. Remainder unknown.
Weather observers, 1928
1928 team of weather observers in action using a theodolite and weather balloon. Location unknown.
Submitted by John R. Keith
Saigon En Route Center, 1966
I went to Vietnam, courtesy of the Army, arriving in Dec 1966. I flew on a C-141 from Travis AFB near San Francisco to Ton Shan Nut AFB, near Saigon. We stopped at Wake Island. I went inside and talked with the on-duty communicators and enjoyed a short visit with them. When I got to Saigon, I came across an FAA ATC on Ton Shan Nut, as I recall. I went inside and talked to the good folks there. As I recall, they were handling all the civilian traffic in the Saigon area.