Vintage film showing the inside workings of an airline and a flight from Kansas City to New York. Few cuts in the beginning but cleans up. It features a TWA Constellation named Star of Paris (N86511) which on February 5, 1946, inaugurated the first scheduled commercial air service across the Atlantic. The first flight from Washington D.C. to Paris, Charles De Gaulle airport was fourteen hours, 48 minutes.
Three physical examinations per year for pilots in 1946 — two government, one company.
TWA was the first to employ staff meteorologists.
Gas mileage: One gallon per mile, 5 gallons per minute. 4,000 miles could fly the Constellation from Kansas City to New york and back again.
Every 10,000 the Constellation aircraft was practically rebuilt for maintenance.
New propellers every 3,000 hours.
Cigarette smoking on the aircraft extinguished during landing (elapsed 20:28 to 20:34)