braniff

This must be circa 1890.

Between 1910 and 1915 took place only two manned free balloon flights in Mexico City, both in early 1914: On the Sunday, January 25, the mexican aviation pioneer Alberto Braniff Ricard (1885-1966) and the french technician Jules Dubois flew on a 2,200 m3 Gordon Bennett hydrogen-filled balloon just brought from France by Braniff himself. They took off from a Braniff's plot beside the former Colonia Railway Station (Estación Colonia) near the Paseo de la Reforma avenue (the balloon in the photograph seems to be above this place). As a Braniff´s guest were aboard the legendary mexican ballooning pioneer Joaquín de la Cantolla y Rico (1829-1914), at that time already an elder man, who would die three days later. The second flight took off on the Saturday, January 31, in the same place and on the same Gordon Bennett balloon manned by Braniff and Dubois. Alberto Braniff short biographies: www.jorgecornish.com/Braniff.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Braniff A photograph showing Alberto Braniff in the company of Pascual Orozco, Francisco Villa and Giuseppe Garibaldi (grandson of the italian hero): www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162707307/ www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=22081777 Braniff´s balloon taking off from the vicinity of the former Colonia Railway Station (photograph): img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=volar05ht1.jpg Braniff´s balloon taking off as was seen from the Cuauhtémoc Memorial (photograph): www.jorgecornish.com/images/Braniff_8.jpg From left to right: Cantolla, Braniff and Dubois aboard on the Alberto Braniff's balloon basket (photograph): img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=volar04av5.jpg Joaquín de la Cantolla inaccurate short biographies (in spanish): www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/notas/3843-En-tiempos-de-Can... www.uaq.mx/fcps/tribuna/343/opi07.htm Book review on a novel about Cantolla (in spanish): www.proscritos.com/larevista/notas.asp?num=51&d=t&...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Tenochtitlán Siglo XXI (Ciudad de México), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

DFW, not DAL. This is the ramp area between terminals A and C.

CV-340-32, s/n 6. To Braniff 26 July 1952 as N3406. To Caribbean Atlantic Airlines 30 April 1964. Converted to CV-640 1966. Scrapped 1976.

From where do you have that this one was converted to a 640 Gary? It is not on the masterlist produced by General Dynamics in 1977. By the way the date 3 Oct 1969 must be way off. Did Braniff make a return visit in 1959 perhaps? Stig

Stig Jarlevik Another strange date stamped by Convair

Yes it seems like a filing date or something similar. It is the same date as the other one I made a comment about Stig