Here are probably the best shots Mel Lawrence took-the classic Aloha Airlines plane. This is the Fairchild F-27, and Aloha got this one in 1958, as shown in Mel's first picture. Mel shot the same plane 5 years later, with a nice Qantas plane in the background getting ready to fly to Australia.
An interesting sidelight to this plane was that Aloha asked for special modifications as they were being built, namely a thicker lower fuselage hull and stregthened wings. Both were considered prudent in case the plane had to ditch in the ocean between islands.
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