Having found these questions just minutes after
jl had posted them, it seemed a bit ungallant to go for them straight away. Let me have a go now.
2. Identify an airline that operated Lockheed L-188 Electra service into Basra, Iraq (BSR) in 1964.
Aha. I think this airline had been operating this route for some 30 years prior to this.
This would be KLM, the only European purchaser of the Electra. Always a question as to what possessed KLM to buy these instead of the Caravelle, or even the Comet. They had a good fleet of Convair 340s for shorter European routes, and the Electras were operated, at least initially, on medium-haul stopping services to the Middle East, where they were just uncompetitive against early 707s and DC8s of everyone else. Trading in their Lockheed Constellations must have been part of it.
Basra was a very early centre of the oil industry in The Gulf, but also of aviation. Both Imperial Airways, with their flying boats, and KLM, with landplanes, did overnight stops there back in the 1930s on their way east. It was even a pre-WW2 RAF flying boat base. The early oil industry eventually moved on; Shell Oil has long been owned in equal shares in Britain and The Netherlands, and their staff moving to/from Basra were probably the principal users of the KLM service. BOAC post-WW2 actually used Abadan, in Iran, which faces Basra across the river where the flying boats used to land.
5. Now it's early fall in 1969 and you are in Vancouver, BC. An impending project requires your presence in Inuvik (YEV) in the NWT. You've found a direct flight from YVR to YEV and it is an all day affair with breakfast, lunch and dinner being served en route with six intermediate stops being made. This service also operates on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only. Name the airline you'll be flying on, the equipment and all six stops in order.
And, having been visiting Vancouver in early September 1969, I might have actually seen this flight depart, as we went to the airport a day before departing back to Britain (on a Wardair 707) to see a relative depart for one of the intermediate stops on this very flight.
Relative in Vancouver was a mining engineer, and this was the flight he was taking to Yellowknire, NWT. I still have (somewhere up in the attic here in London) the timetable of that year which (of course) I took from the Pacific Western check-in counter that day, so this is a bit of a grey-cells memory test. Believe it routed through Kamloops, Calgary, Edmonton (the old Industrial Airport), Hay River, Yellowknife, Norman Wells and thus to Inuvik. I've no idea what these places are like, probably just mining camps and a small settlement.