Originally Posted by Seat 2A

17. Now it's 1969 and you need to travel from Los Angeles to Seattle for a lunch meeting. You've found a daily flight departing LAX at 7:00 am that will get you into SEA at 10:54 am. Two stops will be made en route. Name the airline, the two stops and the equipment.

Hmm... so we know it's United and that it's a DC-8 of some type. Well I reckon you might not have differentiated on the DC-8 model unless it was a -61, so lets go with the D8S. We've got 3:54 to get up to Seattle with two stops averaging 35-40 minutes each I should imagine. That leaves 2:44 to 2:54 flying time - not much time for 2 stops if the routing isn't almost a straight line. In 1976 I flew a stretch 8 LAX-FAT-SFO. Let's stick with that continuing on to Seattle, i.e. LAX-FAT-SFO-SEA

BTW, it's warmed up to 4°F here. It ought to be a good night to go out an watch the New Year's Sparktacular over below the university.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!