May 24, 2007

FedEx Then and Now

I remember sitting in the tower one morning at Milwaukee Mitchell Field probably 25 years ago looking at a pair of Falcon 20s sitting together on the ramp. At one point I watched a truck drive up and start loading box after box on board.

“Whose Falcons are those?” I asked.

“Some company called Federal Express,” came the reply.

How times have changed as you’ll see in this YouTube video called “25 Hours of FedEx Flight Operations.”

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