Originally Posted by
Seat 2A
12. (1974) It’s been fun working at the nation’s smallest National Park over the past twelve years, but when an opportunity arises to become the Assistant Superintendant of the Oldest National Park in the country, you jump rather vigorously at the chance.
Rather amazingly, you’ll be able to make the entire journey between the two parks on the same airline. Rather distressingly, it’ll take you most of the day. Your first flight will make no less than SEVEN enroute stops to your connection point. Seven stops? OMG! Thankfully, your connecting flight will make just one stop enroute to its destination.
Your mission – should you choose to accept it, is to identify both National Parks, the airport closest to each, the airline involved, ALL of the enroute stops (Sorry – no half baked partial answers allowed) and the aircraft type common to both flights.
12. some historical research reveals that the oldest National Park is Yellowstone, which means the nearest destination airport is West Yellowstone/WYS
today’s smallest national park (Gateway Arch, in St. Louis) wasn't yet established in 1962, so the site in question was Hot Springs National Park … and conveniently the closest airport was right there in the namesake town
those two details point to the aircraft of record being a Frontier Convair 580, the connection point being Denver/DEN, and the stop on the second flight being Jackson Hole/JAC
as for 
seven stops between HOT and DEN: - Little Rock/LIT
- Fort Smith/FSM
- Tulsa/TUL
- Oklahoma City/OKC
- Wichita/ICT
- Liberal/LBL
- Colorado Springs/COS
Originally Posted by
Seat 2A
16. (1974)Valdosta, GA to Victoria, BC? Are you kidding me? Why do you always seem to get stuck with these far flung sales calls? Who knows? Who cares? You’ve still gotta do it.
Awright then…
Your first flight will depart Valdosta at the ungodly hour of 605am! It’ll make two stops enroute to your first connection airport. Your second flight – on a different airline – will make two stops enroute to the second connection point where you’ll board a mercifully nonstop flight – aboard yet another airline – to your third connection point, where finally you’ll board a fourth airline nonstop to Victoria. Yay!!
Four different aircraft will be involved, each built by a different manufacturer. By now, you know what we're looking for here. So git to it!
16- well now! this is certainly an exercise in memory bank withdrawals!
let’s start with a Southern Airways Martin 404 that will take our long-suffering traveler to Atlanta/ATL, with stops at Albany/ABY and Columbus/CSG
for the next leg, how about a Delta DC-9-30 to Dallas/DFW … there are more than a few two-stop routings here, so I’ll start with a guess of Jackson/JAN and Shreveport/SHV
then DFW to Seattle/SEA on a Braniff 727-227, and finally a Pacific Western Convair 640 SEA-YYJ