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The Golden Years
Birth of a World-Wide Airline
Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA)
TWA ground crew worker polishes the nose of a TWA DC2, love the enormous dual landing lights and red warning light. Aside, shown is a TWA DC-2 after it landed at Death Valley. The massive props & engines are evident in showing just how much bigger than life these air transports really were. Walter Scott (Scotty’s Castle fame), also known as Death Valley Scotty, craves another speed record. Scotty, a renowned Death Valley character, set a railroad record to Chicago in 1905, and now seeks a similar record by plane. Scotty is shown looking up at a TWA DC2, which pilot La Mar Nelson flew into Death Valley for Scotty’s first flight. (May 28, 1937)
Continental Airlines aside TWA Airliners at ABQ
Stunning Image of Continental Airlines Lodestar (NC17392) aside TWA Transcontinental airliners (ABQ) in the late 1930's. Jack Frye's TWA Executive transport, Lockheed Electra 12A NC18137 (1940-1945) was originally purchased from Bob Six (formerly a Continental passenger transport & one of 3 Lockheed 12's used in early service). Both the TWA Electra 12 and Lodestar 18 were frequent visitors to Albuquerque and Santa Fe airports during the late 1930's & 1940's
Airline Legends Bob Six & Jack Frye
Two airline legends, Bob Six (left) founder of Continental Airlines, Jack Frye (right) are shown in Denver Colorado in attendance of an Air Transport Association conference (June 28, 1940). Aside we see TWA's President Frye at PHX (Phoenix) in headdress, in a celebration hosted by Arizona Native American Indian dancers who honor Jack Frye as 'Arizona's Number 1 Pilot'. Event was to launch TWA's new Phoenix-Boulder-San Francisco passenger service (September 2, 1938)
Great Pyramid of Egypt as seen from TWA Airliner
Dramatic image of a TWA transport over the Great Pyramid and the Giza Plateau. TWA Skysleeper over Lake Mead/Boulder Dam, DC3B 202, Survey Flight, Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam, Sierra Nevada, etc. previous to launch of new TWA routes. October 28, 1937
TWA Copy from the Late-1930's
Transcontinental & Western Air baggage label aside a 1939 TWA calendar. Adjoining, Jack Frye endorses a 1941 Pontiac Torpedo, a line of car Frye preferred with two convertibles, one at Sedona, and one at Kansas City, both TWA Red, likely he received greatly discounted Pontiacs in return for his endorsements.
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