Old Timer's Airline Quiz and Discussion.
Dec 28, 2019, 2:22 pm
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"On Skycoach services, simple, cold, in-flight meals costing 7 shillings and 6 pence are available. Normal medical and toilet requisites are available at no cost. Reading matter, cigarettes and alcoholic drinks are not available either free of charge or for sale".
Alias "Miserable class". Now if you refer back a few posts there's my account of my onetime university colleague being put into a military charter. And as a comparable attitude, many of the travellers on such routes at the time were British colonial staff travelling to/from their assignment, often with families. And of course the Colonial Office in London leapt at the ability to get cheaper tickets, so my relations of the era had their own stories about this when travelling to Africa. The simple meals were generally sandwiches. I suppose they were meant to be grateful for a free Band-Aid if they were injured in turbulence, or that no charge was made for toilet paper in the bathrooms ...
* : 7 shillings and 6 pence (7/6, or "seven and six") is 37.5 pence nowadays. It was quite a common price point.
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Dec 28, 2019, 2:45 pm
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12. Here's a photo of a Lockheed L-188 Electra which was taken in 1973.....
https://www.airliners.net/photo/Nord...CR5MnzsuRRQRxW
This airplane is still flying at the present time for another airline. Name that air carrier.
As you might imagine, this one required a bit of research. Off the top of my head, I figured it'd probably be a Canadian operator and what I came up with was that the airplane is currently with Buffalo Airways operating as C-GLBA.
13. Time for a sailing vacation! Your old sailing buddy has his cat anchored in Papeete. So you are off to Tahiti from San Francisco on board a flight which operates twice a week and makes two stops en route. Identify the airline, both stops and the equipment.
In 1973, this sure sounds like Pan Am as ANZ didn't fly out of SFO and UTA came out of HNL. Let's go with a Pan Am 707 routing SFO-LAX-HNL-PPT
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https://www.airliners.net/photo/Nord...CR5MnzsuRRQRxW
This airplane is still flying at the present time for another airline. Name that air carrier.
As you might imagine, this one required a bit of research. Off the top of my head, I figured it'd probably be a Canadian operator and what I came up with was that the airplane is currently with Buffalo Airways operating as C-GLBA.
13. Time for a sailing vacation! Your old sailing buddy has his cat anchored in Papeete. So you are off to Tahiti from San Francisco on board a flight which operates twice a week and makes two stops en route. Identify the airline, both stops and the equipment.
In 1973, this sure sounds like Pan Am as ANZ didn't fly out of SFO and UTA came out of HNL. Let's go with a Pan Am 707 routing SFO-LAX-HNL-PPT
P.S. Many thanks to jlemon for taking the time to research and formulate these questions
13. Pan Am operating a Boeing 707 is correct! However, this flight did not stop at Los Angeles and Honolulu was the first stop. And we await the tap in......
Dec 28, 2019, 3:01 pm
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Well there weren't that many airlines that served Fiji at all in 1975 (or even now), let along did Paris on the other side of the world at all - and had 707s. Not Qantas or Pan Am. BOAC didn't do Paris. Canadian Pacific had DC8s. Air New Zealand didn't do Europe then. UTA had DC8s AND not serving Noumea is double disqualification. Air France didn't do Fiji. Two stops, connection point, another two stops sort of says the connection was halfway along.
Lets try an Air India 707. Used to serve Fiji then, where half the population is Indian. First flight Nadi-Singapore-Madras-Bombay. Second flight Bombay-Bahrain-Rome-Paris (and on to London).
Lets try an Air India 707. Used to serve Fiji then, where half the population is Indian. First flight Nadi-Singapore-Madras-Bombay. Second flight Bombay-Bahrain-Rome-Paris (and on to London).
Dec 28, 2019, 3:08 pm
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True, but the MD-95 came into service post-Soviet Union. Off-topic but small (much less than an ounce in weight) flyers normally associated with living in the tropics, apparently unknown north of Los Angeles a century ago, known to be up in the S.F. Bay area a half century, are now living year round all the way to up to the Alaska panhandle. One wonders if they will follow the migrating MD-95s and eventually hop over to Asia.
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13. Time for a sailing vacation! Your old sailing buddy has his cat anchored in Papeete. So you are off to Tahiti from San Francisco on board a flight which operates twice a week and makes two stops en route. Identify the airline, both stops and the equipment.
13. Pan Am operating a Boeing 707 is correct! However, this flight did not stop at Los Angeles and Honolulu was the first stop. And we await the tap in......
13. Pan Am operating a Boeing 707 is correct! However, this flight did not stop at Los Angeles and Honolulu was the first stop. And we await the tap in......
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13. Yep! Here's the sched....
PA 817: San Francisco (SFO) 09:00 - 11:05 Honolulu (HNL) 13:00 - 17:15 Pago Pago (PPG) 18:15 - 22:00 Papeete (PPT)
Freq: Daily SFO-HNL, Wednesdays & Saturdays only HNL-PPG-PPT
Service classes: F/Y
Equip: 707
PA 817: San Francisco (SFO) 09:00 - 11:05 Honolulu (HNL) 13:00 - 17:15 Pago Pago (PPG) 18:15 - 22:00 Papeete (PPT)
Freq: Daily SFO-HNL, Wednesdays & Saturdays only HNL-PPG-PPT
Service classes: F/Y
Equip: 707
Dec 28, 2019, 5:13 pm
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a time line of 1973.....
8. You are in Panama City, Panama. You need to travel to Chicago and have found a daily flight which makes two stops en route. You book a seat. Identify the air carrier, both stops and the aircraft type.
8. You are in Panama City, Panama. You need to travel to Chicago and have found a daily flight which makes two stops en route. You book a seat. Identify the air carrier, both stops and the aircraft type.
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5- “wasn’t Baltimore” for NA between DCA and JFK means the answer has to be Philadelphia (PHL)
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19.You are back in New York City in the fall and it's already snowing. Time for a quick getaway with a lady friend for a bit of sun n' fun! So how about jetting down to Cancun? You've found a direct one stop flight which operates four days a week. Identify the airport you will depart from in the New York City area, the air carrier, the stop and the aircraft type.
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1956-vintage Beaver converted to electric
Harbour Air (based in Vancouver) recently conducted the first flight of an all-electric de Haviland DHC-2 Beaver
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I think at the time Rio de Janeiro would be the point not to miss on South American flights, routing Santiago-Rio-Madrid. It's strange how it has progressively fallen off from being a onetime world destination, even within Brazil it has now been eclipsed by Sao Paolo. Used to have Air France Concorde flights from Paris, stopping in The Azores.