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Auskunft im Cockpit screen title.

Short film (1959)

Starring:
Paul Hubschmid (Kapitän Maeder)
Anne-Marie Blanc (Suzanne Haug))
Robert Freitag (Copilot Dubois)
Martin Fueter (Walter)
Lore Stoob (Stewardess)

"Information from Cockpit" - Depicts the pilot, the crew at the airport, the passengers, and the airplanes, getting ready for take off.

Various Airliners[]

At Flughafen Zürich Kloten. See discussion tab (1)
1 - Convair 440-11 Metropolitan of Swissair.
2 - Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation of Air India.
3 - Vickers 808 Viscount of Aer Lingus.
4 - Douglas DC-6B of Swissair.
5 - Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation of KLM-The Flying Dutchman.

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Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation[]

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Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation of KLM-The Flying Dutchman.

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Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation of KLM-The Flying Dutchman.

Vickers 745D Viscount[]

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Vickers 745D Viscount of Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane.

Various Airliners[]

1 - Vickers 745D Viscount of Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane.
2 - Unidentified Aircraft .
3 - Douglas DC-3D of Swiss Air Lines.
4 - Ilyushin Il-14 of LOT- Polskie Linie Lotnicze.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas[]

Registration HB-IBL, c/n 45062/743. Delivered new to Swissair in December 1956, named Genève. Sold to Riddle Airlines in July 1960, registered N301G. Converted to Freighter. Sold to Airlift International in November 1963. Written off in August 1971.
In the background, a Douglas DC-6B of Swissair and Vickers 745D Viscount of Alitalia.

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Reg.HB-IBL Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Reg.HB-IBL Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Reg.HB-IBL Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Reg.HB-IBL Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas (see through desk model)[]

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

Douglas DC-6B[]

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Douglas DC-6B of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-6B of Swissair.

Douglas DC-6B[]

Registration HB-IBA, c/n 43274/189. Delivered new and the first DC-6 for Swissair in June 1951, named Zurich, then Schaffausen, then Aargau (but also Genève apparently See discussion tab (2)). Sold to Sterling Airways in June 1968, registered OY-EAO. Leased to Trollair "On charter by Norsk Flytjeneste" between January and May 1972. Leased to the United Nations Organization - ONU from August 1972 to February 1973. Bought by Concare Aircraft Leasing in April 1973, registered N515AO first then N515EA. Leased to Seminole Aviation in June 1973, then Rosenbalm Aviation. Sold to Sis-Q Flying Service in January 1976, registered N999SQ. Transferred to Macavia International in May 1985. Sold to T & G Aviation Inc. in February 1991. Stored at Chandler memorial, in February 1992 with Macavia tiles/logo on the nose, still in basic Swissair colors, named 51. Bought by Barron Thomas Aviation in November 1993. Sold for parts to Everts Air Fuel Inc. Fairbanks AK in February 1994. Nose section preserved as Pike's Aviator Greenhouse and Sweets, Fairbanks.
Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

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Reg.HB-IBA Douglas DC-6B Genève of Swissair.

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Reg.HB-IBA Douglas DC-6B Genève of Swissair.

Douglas DC-3D[]

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Douglas DC-3D of Swiss Air Lines.

Douglas DC-6B[]

A third one in far background.

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Douglas DC-6B of Swissair.

A Douglas DC-3 or Douglas C-47 Skytrain in the background.

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Douglas DC-6B of Swissair.

Convair 440-11 Metropolitan[]

2x Convair 440 on the right, tail fin of a DC-6 to the left, all of them from Swissair of course.

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Convair 440-11 Metropolitan of Swissair.

Various Airliners[]

1 - Douglas DC-6B of Swissair.
2 - Unidentified Aircraft .
3 - Convair 440-11 Metropolitan of Swissair.
4 - Convair 440-11 Metropolitan of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas[]

View from control tower of Flughafen Zürich Kloten.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

Convair 440-11 Metropolitan[]

A poster in the boy's room where he is sleeping while is mother is on route in the DC-7 to New-York.

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Convair 440-11 Metropolitan of Swissair.

Various Aircraft[]

1 - Unidentified Aircraft, but thinking of XF-90, F-94 Starfire, F-101 Voodoo, F-104 Starfighter, or something else.
2 - Unidentified Aircraft model which seems a generic type of airplane.
3 - Unidentified Aircraft.
4 - Illegible, but seems to be an airliner.

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Sirkorsky H-19[]

Or civilian S-55 above the boy who already seems to be a very knowledgeable amateur in aeronautics.

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Sirkorsky H-19.

Various Aircraft[]

1 - Sirkorsky H-19.
2 - Unidentified Aircraft.
3 - Unidentified Aircraft.
4 - Unidentified Aircraft.
5 - Convair 440-11 Metropolitan of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas (interior)[]

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

Glider model[]

The co-pilot tells how he became an aviator. First was with aero-modeling.

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Unidentified Aircraft[]

Then gliding training.
Registration HB-554 built in Switzerland by Bernhard, only information found on the net and no trace of a glider manufacturer named Bernhard.

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De Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.54[]

Pilot in the Swiss air force.
Registration J-1751, c/n 921. Involved in a mid air collision with a Hunter F.58 over Belgium on 12th April 1972. It was subsequently withdrawn from use, and has been with the Flieger Flab Museum, Dubendorf (LSMD), Switzerland since 1981.

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Reg.J-1751 De Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.54 of the Schweizer Luftwaffe/Forces aériennes suisses/Forze aeree svizzere.

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Reg.J-1751 De Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.54 of the Schweizer Luftwaffe/Forces aériennes suisses/Forze aeree svizzere.

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Reg.J-1751 De Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.54 of the Schweizer Luftwaffe/Forces aériennes suisses/Forze aeree svizzere.

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Reg.J-1751 De Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.54 of the Schweizer Luftwaffe/Forces aériennes suisses/Forze aeree svizzere.

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Reg.J-1751 De Havilland DH.112 Venom FB.54 of the Schweizer Luftwaffe/Forces aériennes suisses/Forze aeree svizzere.

Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas[]

After a night, end of the travel is soon.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

Illegible coat of arms, but could be Genève and the HB-IBL again?

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Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas of Swissair.

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