jlemon

That's one heck of a bad place to have a landslide. And given the ongoing challenges the National Park Service has with regard to receiving federal funds for improvements, a long term solution involving a bridge or reroute could well be highly problematic. I remember the difficulty the NPS experienced concerning procuring funds for the rehabilitation of the Tioga Pass Road in Yosemite National Park back when I was overseeing the search and rescue helicopter contract in the park.

And as for the coronavirus, I am now taking a wait and see position concerning a trip I've already arranged to Austria this July.....

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Please feel free to answer from any and all and as always please limit your response to no more than two questions per day so that all may participate. And of course, we are looking for complete answers here. Thanks!


40 . (1959) From San Diego you’ll continue on to Dallas, Texas. There’s a well-timed departure out of Lindbergh every Friday evening offering something called Royal Cavalier Service. Hmm. Sounds nice. Let’s book it. Identify the airline and aircraft you’ll be flying upon.

62 . (1959) You’re flying on a domestic propeller driven flight to Miami, Florida. The service could not be finer and you can even have a drink in a galley/bar equipped lounge after lunch. Most airliners just have a few seats around a table in the back of the plane. Given the parameters, only one flight fits the bill. Identify the airline and which city you’re flying into Miami from.

67. (2001) It used to be that the Pittsburgh to Philadelphia market was dominated by Allegheny and TWA. In 2001 only two airlines served this route. Allegheny has long since morphed into US Airways and it is still a major presence on the route with 14 mostly daily flights. TWA no longer flies PIT-PHL. In its place is another airline that offers four daily flights. Identify that airline.
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68 . (1959) Three airlines operate nonstop service between New York City and Mexico City. Each airline operates a different aircraft type on this route. One airline advertises that it offers the fastest service on this route. Identify each airline, the aircraft type each operates and which airline operates the fastest flight.
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72. (1965) You need to fly from Boston to San Diego and you need to do it as inexpensively as possible. To that end, you’ve booked yourself a flight aboard an all economy-class configured aircraft that leaves Boston late at night and makes three enroute stops before arriving in San Diego early in the morning. Identify the airline, aircraft type and the three enroute stops.

76 . (1959) You’re upcoming flight next week between San Diego and San Antonio is marketed as the “Silver Arrow” It’s actually an interchange flight with a change of airlines at the single enroute stop. Identify the two airlines involved the single enroute stop and the aircraft type.
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77. (1995) You’ve had a great winter operating fishing charters off of San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. Now however, it’s time to return home to Chicago, just in time for opening day at Wrigley Field for your Chicago Cubs. You’ve found a connection involving two nonstop flights, each operated by different airlines utilizing MD80s. Surprisingly, the connecting city is not in California. Identify the two airlines involved and the connecting city.

79 . (1959) Although thisairline operated multiple nonstop flights between Atlanta and New York, one single daily flight was marketed as a V.I.P. flight. The flight featured filet mignon steak, Champagne, flowers for the ladies and even Dictaphone recorders on request. Name the airline and the aircraft type utilized on this flight.

83. (2001) Once upon a time there used to be a nonstop flight from Kahului, Maui to Chicago. Not anymore. These days the longest flight from Kahului to the mainland is a bit shorter. Identify the route, the airline that flies it and the aircraft type used.
It's not ATA 757 to PHX...

R Cockroach's Set

Airline logos and birds

Name the airline given the clue, as well as bird name where appropriate. Answers are not all inclusive as I am sure there are defunct airlines I don't remember (or never even saw one of the a/c, e.g., many U.S. airlines).

1. has long used a scavenger (name the specific bird too) - note another airline uses the name of the bird but not always the logo, and another airlines has started using this bird in its logo. Name these two other airlines.
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2 name of the stylized raptor was part of the airline's name

3. eagle. At least one predecessor airline used an unnamed(?) bird. Name that predecessor. Note: Bird did not feature in any names (other than for a commuter brand - name that commuter brand too)
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5. a real bird European explorers first thought could not possibly be real so there were in p....... (name the type of bird too)
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7. stork

14. At least one airline of this country uses a mythological bird. Give the western and anglicized name of the bird too.

15. Two airlines use mythological birds. Name the birds and respective airlines (both bird names end with "a")

Other (winged) non-bird animals

18. Tiger (name two if not three airlines - all have a common lineage)
(partially answered - this one is for real old timers)

20. These two airlines (of the same country) featured a man with a raptor head dress
Partially answered (AeroMexico)


Bonus Questions

2. re: Question 18 above. One airline that is descended from two of the airlines and is parent to the other. It does not use a tiger but has a stylized and unnamed(?) bird. Name this airline

3. This airline and its descendant used a stylized bird logo. The name of the logo was also at least one of the two airline's ATC call-sign and is used by the airlines' current incarnation. Name the two airlines and the logo's name
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3A. Another airline merged with/into one of the airlines in question 3 used a winged lion as its logo. Name the airline
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78B. What airline was serving New York with the Comet in 1965? Where did it fly into New York from?

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dfw88

I'm a bit embarrassed this is just now occurring to me, but... American Airlines? The eagle was prominent up until the last merger. The commuter brand, as indicated above, is obviously American Eagle.
As for a predecessor that used a bird... I'm drawing a blank on that one.

jrl767

68- I'm confident of two -- Eastern with (most likely) a DC-7 and Aeronaves de Mexico with the faster Britannia; as far as other U.S. carriers, I know Pan Am didn't operate IDL-MEX, so I'm thinking that this was another Fifth Freedom operation, which would of course point to either a European or a South American airline ... while I suspect most of those operations flowed through Miami or the Caribbean (with Iberia perhaps serving Montreal, as I know they did in the 1970s), I'll offer that the third airline we're looking for was Air France, operating their flagship L-1649A Super Starliner

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jrl767

76- let's keep the "I'm fairly confident about the DC-7" theme going here ... American/Continental over El Paso (ELP)

YVR Cockroach

But of course.

As for the predecessor. shall we put it that it was acquired by an airline that was in itself acquired (or really body snatched), and that body-snatching airline body snatched yet another airline (for now).

Link to question post

WHBM

I think this refers to the Speedbird, emblem of Imperial Airways in the 1930s, then BOAC, then British Airways until the latest livery change when it was "restyled" and lost it's name . It is of course still the ATC callsign for many BA flights.

The winged lion could be that of Caledonian Airways, later British Caledonian, and under BA ownership back to Caledonian again. Or it could be that of the "original", independently-owned British Airways from the 1930s, who also used such branding.

The Speedbird was designed by Theyre Lee-Elliott, 1930s commercial artist, who had nevertheless done religion when at university in Oxford, and in between found time to be the British table tennis champion. When Alex Frater in the 1980s did his book "Beyond the Blue Horizon" we have referred to many times here, about flights from the UK to Australia comparing the 1980s to the 1930s, his flight attendant on the first stage in a BA Tristar from London to Paris mentioned that she lived in the same apartment block in Chelsea as the now elderly Lee-Elliott. And he also did that original British Airways, competitor of Imperial, flying lion as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theyre_Lee-Elliott

http://www.artnet.com/artists/theyre-lee-elliott/

dfw88

I'm thinking this one must be the condor. So we have:

1. has long used a scavenger (name the specific bird too): Aerolineas Argentinas
2. note another airline uses the name of the bird but not always the logo: Condor (the airline) which kept their name but not their logo during the Thomas Cook years
3. another airlines has started using this bird in its logo: Avianca's condor appears to have been added the most recently of the three, so I'll guess it fits in here.

dfw88

For my second of the day, I remember reading a book once that talked about the shock European explorers felt when learning of the existence of the bird-of-paradise, which features on the tail of Air Niugini, so I'll throw that out there.

jlemon

Time for a couple of wild guesses.....

67. AirTran (operating DC9-30 and possibly B717-200 service).

83. American Trans Air (ATA) operating the B757-300 between Kahului (OGG) and Phoenix (PHX).

And a sure sign of spring here last evening: our first sighting of lightning bugs (a.k.a. fireflies) this year in our backyard.

Now if we can just avoid the severe weather threat that may possibly develop over southern Louisiana later today.......

YVR Cockroach

on all counts! I didn't realise the Speedbird was that old.

YVR Cockroach