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PICTORIAL COMMERCIAL AVIATION (Part III ) Douglas DC-8-62 Braniff

AN EVENING OF '73 IN EZEIZA

In these photos I present here, you can see some of the colors used on its aircraft DC-8-62, the now-defunct Braniff International, in-flight South America and especially to our country. may be of interest to remora those years in which the company referred to commercial aviation came to Argentina, making a major commitment to the Latin American aviation market, resulting from the acquisition of Panagra in early 1967, which had a monopoly on commercial aviation in the region.

As distinctive and Braniff promotional campaign adopted the so-called "Flying Colours", painting their planes of different colors.
The most famous was undoubtedly the DC-8 painted by the artist Alexander Calder to promote its flights to Mexico and Central America.
Next photo belongs a: Airlines Remembered / Braniff International Airways / Photos © R. Leeuw

Lamentablente the oil crisis in the late '70s, with the recession and consequently to Fuel price rises and also the product of poor management of the company using a very aggressive policy of expansion, ended negatively impacting your financial situation, leading to bankruptcy in May 1982.

But back to my pictures from Ezeiza, is also interesting to note that the airport had a large covered terrace All boarding facilities, a place where these photographs were obtained. Today, the airport has very modern facilities, the level of the best in the world, no doubt, but the planes, which also have modern turbofans, and listens or off, much less is possible to see them. Another feature of the time, was that in order to see some planes land or take off, had to spend hours on the terrace, as air traffic was not even remotely, the frequency of día.Por today that is more noteworthy that this sequence Photo of an evening, there are two Braniff DC-8, a sample of the company's interest in región.También finally, you can see in the pictures, as was then the loading and unloading of passengers, very different today, thanks to modern airport facilities account, as mentioned above lines, product development and growth airline industry.

Finally my photos