Wearing an oddity in my collection today....
Good morning!
it is a wonderful "spring" day today with temperatures rising up to 20° so I thought I´d give the AN6551 a go;
technically we are still working but nearly all of our staff are released from duty till the end of the month; this means basically fully paid holidays without the time being deducted from our given yearly holidays - at first thought, the best that can happen to anyone working;
BUT, starting next month, the whole company is set on short schedule; the details of this are still negogiated between our union and company on one side and the ministries of labor and economy on the other side; it can mean that in 6 weeks time we will have to work at least 10% of normal working hours and we get a reduced payment of about 85% of our usual net payment;
but those details are not fixed yet... we will see;
Austrian Airlines is still operating some flights, but only to pick up Austrians in various countries who were on holidays and bring them back; all our other aircraft are parked at Vienna Airport, which leads to spooky scenes, seeing rows and rows of aircraft parked next to each other or tail to tail - our whole fleet bar a few standby aircraft used for those repatriation flights....
how do things look on your side?
WFH. Want to take a jacket out for a coffee, which one?
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Strangely cargo sales and imports go up and the guys in the cargo department are doing round the clock work in 3 shifts here...
Today a G-1 from the A series, the scarcest of the 7823 model... the construction, goatskin and collar are the best.View attachment 33910
Thanks guys! @Flightengineer @blackrat2, definitely G-1 can be used for regular and will last you forever, try looking for one made till 1969 with the mouton collar.
That L.W. Foster is my other fav!I have one from 1956 Jorge