Originally Posted by
jlemon
1. In 1947, this airline was operating classic milk run flights several times a day between Los Angeles and San Francisco. One flight in particular, being flight #2, departed L.A. at 8:30am and arrived in S.F. at 12:22pm. Eight stops were made en route. Most of these stops were located close to the coast but one stop was located inland on the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley. Identify the air carrier, all eight stops and the aircraft type flown on the service.
Ah yes, an airline prominent between LA and San Francisco. Well that is surely Southwest. Some things are timeless.
The aircraft was doubtless a DC3, the captain almost certainly an old B17/B29 veteran, and the stops along the way - well, Ventura, Oxnard, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, SLO, Monterey, Watsonville (remember seeing an old Lockheed 18 there in the 1980s, which looked like it had maybe been sat in the weeds there since 1947), San Jose.