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1953 - FAA Air Traffic Controller Don Innes and another gent at MIA's Tower #8 with Eastern Constellation in the background

Tower #8, Miami International Airport, Florida


This is a still shot from the Eastern Air Lines promotional movie "Flying with Arthur Godfrey" which is really interesting to watch. In the movie they are departing Idlewild Airport in New York and talking to the Idlewild Tower yet this scene was filmed at FAA Tower #8 at Miami International Airport. There is an Eastern Constellation flying past the tower in the background. You can view the movie at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6VfkKjlhXs&feature=player_embedded

Thank you to Karl Innes for identifying his father Don in the image. His father gave me permission to visit the new tower and radar room at the 20th Street Terminal for as long as I wanted back in 1960 and I've never forgotten his kind gesture and my experience there. I didn't know at the time that Don Innes' father Karl was a career ramp agent with the Dade County Port Authority, which became the Dade County Aviation Department in 1972. Karl retired before I was hired in 1974 and I heard some tales about him from the older ramp agents.


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Don Boyd26-Mar-2012 04:15
Wow Karl, thank you for your comments and identification of your dad, who I really appreciated when I was 12 in 1960. He graciously gave me permission to come down to the new tower at the 20th Street Terminal and observe everything in the radar room and then up in the tower cab with no time constraints at all. It make a huge impression on me and I can remember the visit vividly to this day. And how ironic that the same tower cab fell under my supervision from 1991 when my gate controllers were moved up there to control gates after Pan Am died until 2000 when I retired. The FAA had moved to a new tower on the west side in the early 1980's and Pan Am beat us to the punch by leasing the tower cab.

Thanks again Karl!

Don
Karl A. Innes 26-Mar-2012 01:23
Wow!!!!!!!!!!! That is my father Don Innes seated with the mic. I just watched the video. Supposedly that is Idlewild but it for sure is MIA's old 36th Street terminal.

I have looked around your site in the past and some of the MIA photos as well as the Hialeah, Springs and Miami photos really bring back memories. But this one brought tears to my eyes!

By the way-I was only an infant but my mom and dad too me along on Eastern's Golden Falcon Connie inaugural flight.

All I can say Don is thanx for the memories!