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Aug 21, 2012, 11:59 pm

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tonywestsider

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Originally Posted by jlemon

And some years after Northwest Orient had finally retired the Electra on their milk run route from Chicago O'Hare to Winnipeg, there was this flight in the winter of 1976:

NW 707: FLL-ORD-MSP-YWG. Equipment: DC-10

Fortunately, at this same time, there was this milk run flight operated by another airline that doubtless posed stiff competition to the NW DC-10 service from ORD to YWG, especially where diehard airline enthusiasts were concerned:

NC 571: ORD-MKE-MSN-CWA-RHI-IWD-DLH-YWG. Equipment: Convair 580

Now, the equipment was not quite as sexy as the Electra, to be sure, but at least there was an interesting looking, stylized waterfowl on the tail of the CV580.....and what was his name again?

Aha! Tonywestsider and his time machine were out of the loop on many of the questions due to a lot of work recently. Nevertheless, I enjoy reading the many responses in this thread. To respond to jlemon's question about the waterfowl on the tail of a North Central Airlines CV 580, the name of the waterfowl was Herman The Duck.

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