Originally Posted by
Seat 2A
1. (1969) You are in Tunis, Tunisia and need to get to Cologne, Germany. Alas, there are no nonstop flights, but you've found a nice connection involving two nonstop flights utilizing two airlines operating two different aircraft types, both built by the same manufacturer - not from Washington, State. Both aircraft have the same number of engines. Please identify all the usual particulars.
Originally Posted by
jrl767
1- U.S-built jets that qualify would be (a) Convair 880 and 990 and (b) DC-9-10 and DC-9-30
no realistic possibilities for the four-engine types in terms of 880 operators, so let's look at DC9/D9S ... SAS was the first D9S operator; Austrian and KLM took up their jets around the same time ... I really can't visualize any ot the three operating from another's hub to their own via CGN
so I'm gonna go out on a limb here and speculate that this trip involved a connection in Prague/PRG; the flight out of TUN was an Aeroflot Tu-134 (which of course continued to Moscow), and the flight into CGN was a CSA Tu-104
Originally Posted by
Seat 2A
A most intriguing and seemingly plausible guess, but NO! Neither Aeroflot, CSA, PRG or any Russian built jets are involved in this itinerary.
Please, guess again!
well, let’s try a pair of four-engine Vickers aircraft —
- TUN-FCO on an Alitalia Viscount
- FCO-CGN on an Air Ceylon VC-10