AA-2026-A28E59
On the image
Two young girls stand on the open apron of a Canadian airport in the 1950s, posed directly in front of a Trans-Canada Air Lines Lockheed Constellation — the four-engined, triple-tailed thoroughbred that TCA operated on its mainline routes and considered the modern face of Canadian aviation. The adults who brought them here walked them past the terminal, across the tarmac, and stopped ten feet from the nose gear, because that was simply what you did when something impressive was parked nearby. No fence separated the public from the aircraft, no procedure required a reason to be standing there, and the idea that an unsupervised adult or a ground crew member might object had not yet become airline policy. The smaller girl has one hand on her hip in the practiced stance of someone who has been told to look natural for photographs before. Trans-Canada would become Air Canada in 1965, the Constellation would be retired not long after, and the era in which a family outing could include standing under a propeller on an active ramp would end without anyone quite deciding to end it.
Visually related — by likeness
Two Children on the Tarmac, Trans-Canada Air Lines Lockheed Constellation. 1954–1960. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-A28E59. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/two-children-on-the-tarmac-trans-canada-air-lines-lockheed-constellation.
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year = {1954–1960},
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