Photo / Video Archives

AIRLINE CAREER PHOTO/VIDEO ARCHIVES

A collection of Continental Airlines history and photos/videos during our airline careers:

- CAL FLIGHT OPERATIONS, GOLDEN CONTRAILS ISSUES 1965 -1983:
We received (August 2025) from Kevin Ryan, the son of Captain Shaun Ryan (Golden Eagles member, Gone West 2023), a box of Continental Airlines Flight Operations “Golden Contrails” publications (1965 thru 1983), that he inherited.

Captain Ryan had gotten them a long time ago from Captain Dick Grigsby (Golden Eagles member and Historian, Gone West 2014), who had cataloged and kept these publications for posterity.

We now have this treasure at our Kingwood, Texas address. At first we had thought these would be back issues of the Golden Contrails published by us, the Golden Eagles. Instead, they were publications that the “Flight Operations” of CAL had published as recurrent training and tests for the pilots.

We had thought we would scan them and add to our current collection of Golden Contrails issues (1991 thru 2024) on our website (click this LINK), but since they are not that relevant to our Golden Eagles publications, we will store them away if anyone really wants to delve into them in the future.

On these publications, they did include photos of many new pilot classes (1965 thru 1979). For a nostalgic trip back in time, we have posted these classic photos on our website. You can view these pilot classes, by clicking on this link PILOT CLASSES 1965-1979.

There was also one publication that had an excellent photo collage of the First 100 Pilots on the Continental Seniority List, which really goes back in time (1939 thru 1948)! You can view this by clicking on this link FIRST 100 PILOTS.

- CAL PILOTS 1988 VIDEO:
This video discusses the CAL/EAL merger situation, click on link below to "view" this video. The original video was about 85 minutes long, but this file only shows the first 15 minutes of it. Video does not start until the 26 second mark:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vovysixqshfeywr/Continental%20Pilots%201988_1_Video.mp4?dl=0

- HISTORY OF CAL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJSzdtEzuk

- CONTINENTAL HISTORICAL ARCHIVES
  (donated by Ken Lawrence, GE member, Oct 2021):
These are excellent archives and memorabilia of Continental Airlines. Click on the LINKS below to bring up folders of files (photos and documents). You can right click on any individual file to see the full size file, and then from there you can scroll thru everything using the "> or <" buttons. You can also download individual files (or a group of "selected" files): right click the file(s), then select "Download". Some files may need to be rotated correctly.

CAL ARCHIVES Folder: Photos of CAL history from the 1960s onward. Click here for an Excel spreadsheet that has information on the attached 2629 files. It will take awhile to download all these files depending on your internet speed. Keep scrolling down, and additional files will continue to appear on your screen.

60 YEAR HISTORY OF CAL  ("POINT TO POINT")

   TALE OF THE GOLDEN TAIL  (1982)

THE CONTINENTAL STORY (and "WHAT IT MEANS TO THE GOLDEN EAGLES" 1982)

CAL FLIGHT 11 BOMBING (May 1962)

AIR MIC ARCHIVES (webmaster Capt Don Coleman, CAL, UAL):
  click this LINK Don says to send his way any Air Mic photos and as much information
as possible to his email:   [email protected]

PAST REUNIONS / CONVENTIONS:
- Be sure to refer to our REUNION menu tab, where you can view past (and upcoming) Reunions
   and Conventions.
- From 2003 thru 2019 we had formal Conventions (business meetings, etc). Starting in 2020
we have had informal Reunions.

CAL MEMORIES:
- Also, go to this website page for many additional CAL historical photos:
  CONTINENTAL AIRLINES MEMORIES
This is a great collection of historical CAL photos, put together by one of our Flight Attendants,
Chris Valkoff (1984-2014). Click the "ENTER" button at the bottom of the second page to take you to the full site!

PHOTOS:
- Random Continental Airlines photos, including over one hundred Air Mic crew photos below...years 1997-1998...from CAL pilot Dennis Brown.

- Please submit your photos (or video/YouTube if you have one)....make sure photos are the full size jpg files (not thumbnails). You can submit (20MB max size) them to the Webmaster at [email protected]

ON COMPUTER or TABLET:  You can click on each photo to make it bigger, then click on the < > symbols (or left or right arrow keys on keyboard) to scroll thru all of the photos as a slideshow.
ON PHONE:  Best viewed in landscape, you can click on a photo, then use small thumbnails at bottom of screen to manually select the next photo.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qmJWbQVvqKqcwf3f8[email protected]

VIDEOS
Be sure to go "full screen" and turn volume up! Your internet speed may affect the downloading of the videos. The "Now and Then" historical Continental Airlines history video was a labor of love produced by Bob Sherwin. It is 45 minutes long, but brings back a lot of memories for our wonderful Continental Airline career.