Comments on: AIRPORTS Modernize With Huge Clocks (Mar, 1933)

By: docca

docca — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:35:53 +0000

“Before this they had a guy with a big megaphone standing on the tarmac shouting out the time every 5 minutes.”

“WHAT!?? I CAN’T HEAR YOU! LOOK OUT FOR WHAT? A PLANE IN FRONT OF WHAT??”

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:01:59 +0000

Pilots are usually too drunk to see the clock from that height!

By: notbob

notbob — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:25:11 +0000

Here’s the Wikipedia link for the Heston Areodome. It closed in 1946 to make way for Heathtrow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heston_Aerodrome

By: Torgo

Torgo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:51:12 +0000

It shows you how basic airports were that this was considered modernization.

By: John M. Hanna

John M. Hanna — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:54:04 +0000

“Hello ladies and gentlemen. This is your captain speaking. We are arriving now in London. The temperature is 70 degrees and the time is… (banks plane hard to the left, throwing passengers, stewards and luggage around the cabin)…1.50 P.M. Thank you for flying with us.”

By: bob

bob — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:44:14 +0000

My my Mr. Jones … what a huge clock you have there … may I touch it?

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:41:20 +0000

Before this they had a guy with a big megaphone standing on the tarmac shouting out the time every 5 minutes.

By: JMyint

JMyint — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:49:54 +0000

The more modern the airport the larger the clock.

http://www.brookbrae.com/html/....._clock.htm

By: Al Bear

Al Bear — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:30:41 +0000

Wow, that is a modern airport having such a large clock!