Category: Facilities

Submitted by Ed Dietz

Air Traffic Managers Dinner, November 1971. Location unknown

Listed left to right:
Al Leroy, Deputy Albany Tower, New York
Ed Dietz, Manager, Glens Falls FSS, New York
Bill Armkenecht, Deputy Buffalo FSS, New York
Al Tridmann, Chief, Niagara Falls Tower, New York
Bill Cantwell (only hands visible, far right)

Submitted by Ed Dietz

Location and Names Unknown, October 1973
Ed Dietz, far right

Braniff Airlines Flight Simulator Equipment, Dallas Love Field, Texas

E  – Link Boeing 727 Flight Simulator  Computer Control Panel 10/1974

This Simulator was located at the Braniff Maintenance Facility, Dallas Love Field.

F-  Link Boeing 727_MK 1 Power Control Panel  10/1974.  Dallas Love Field

G-  Link727_Area & Chart Recorder, 10/1974.  Dallas Love Field

Historical data and photo submitted by Robert Roll, former Braniff Airline
employee

Historical data and photo submitted by Robert Roll, former Braniff Airline
Midway employee

Dallas Love Approach (DAL), Texas, October 1974

H-RMV Runway 13
The Rigid Model Visual System was designed and constructed by Redifon Corp of Great Britain. It consisted of a GE color projector mounted on the simulator cab with optics and screens in front of the Captain and Co-pilot.  The images were generated by a Philips Color camera on a track mounted , servo controlled  gantry  in front of an approximately 15’ X 70’ vertical rigid model.   The rigid model  was a universal airport; however, the navigational aids could be changed to simulate various national/international airports to facilitate more realistic training. This system was controlled by a Texas Instruments Model 880 mini-computer (model number from memory.. may be wrong)  Quite the “State of the Art” at the time.  The Rigid Model Visual System was located in a special air conditioned room in the corner of  an end hangar bay at Braniff’s Maintenance Facility at Dallas Love Field. 

The remainder of the collection is of various aircraft Braniff flew as well as a few of other airlines taken at various times and places during my career.

Submitted by Ed Dietz

Local Coordinator Conference, New York, August 2-3, 1973
Ed Dietz, Manager Morgantown FSS, West Virginia (unknown position).  Rest unknown.

Submitted by Ed Dietz

Easter Region ATO Chiefs Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, October, 1973
Ed Dietz, Manager Morgantown FSS, West Virginia, second row, sixth from
left.  Remainder unknown.

Submitted by Ed Dietz

Easter Region ATO Chiefs Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 3, 1971
Names unknown

Submitted by Ed Dietz

AFSS South Hub Managers Meeting, Leesburg, Virginia, May 7, 1991
Left to Right:  Jeff Bounds (Salisbury, MD FSS), Adam Greco (Millville, New Jersey AFSS), Jim Asbury (Elkins AFSS), Ed Dietz (Leesburg AFSS HUB Manager), and Jimmie Jefferson (Newport News, Virginia FSS.

Submitted by Ed Dietz

Management Training School, Lawton, Oklahoma, July 1971
Ed Dietz, front row, fourth from right. Remainder unknown.