Old Timer's Airline Quiz and Discussion.
Oct 27, 2013, 7:41 pm
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And BTW: Pacific Northern never operated the Boeing 720B....they flew the "other" B720 model!
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Oct 27, 2013, 9:46 pm
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12) Correct! Pan American was operating a daily roundtrip flight nonstop between SEA and FAI at this time.
Which leaves just one other airline to be identified on the route. So here's a hint: the aircraft this second air carrier operated was a different jet type than the B707......
Which leaves just one other airline to be identified on the route. So here's a hint: the aircraft this second air carrier operated was a different jet type than the B707......
Oct 27, 2013, 11:34 pm
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Well I live here, so I'm going to guess it was the airline that offered Golden Nugget Service and it was operating a jetliner built down the coast in San Diego.
Oct 28, 2013, 7:55 am
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The Summer/Fall of 1963 timetable for Alaska Airlines is interesting in that it appears to indicate that AS was operating exactly one roundtrip flight per day with the CV-880 system wide with a routing of SEA-FAI-ANC and return. AS 881 would depart from SEA in the evening nonstop for FAI with continuing service to ANC. AS 880 would then depart late at night from ANC to FAI with continuing redeye service featuring a very early arrival at SEA. It appears that in the summer/fall of 1963 Alaska Air did not operate the CV-880 on any flights during most of the day, and was also not flying nonstop between SEA and ANC at this time.
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Oct 28, 2013, 7:25 pm
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6) You got it, Tony! It was good old PSA!
And here's a bonus question: In the summer of 1962, Pacific Southwest was operating only four intrastate routes. One, of course, was LAX-SFO. Two other routes were one stop services and the fourth route was a nonstop that was operated on Fridays and Saturdays only. Identify these three routes flown by PSA as well as the one and only aircraft type this airline was operating at the time.
And here's a bonus question: In the summer of 1962, Pacific Southwest was operating only four intrastate routes. One, of course, was LAX-SFO. Two other routes were one stop services and the fourth route was a nonstop that was operated on Fridays and Saturdays only. Identify these three routes flown by PSA as well as the one and only aircraft type this airline was operating at the time.
Oct 29, 2013, 12:36 am
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was equally interested in it !http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...ed=0CEEQ9QEwAw
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I haven't quite seen anything like it previously. Many of the delightful aircraft pictures, done in pen-and-ink/watercolour, are of a DC3, but there are some L-749 Constellations in the "fleet", and at least one DC6 tail. All the packaging has different pictures on different tins, packets and such like, and the last link above shows some of the design effort they go to.
Seemed quite expensive for what it was. Anyone tried the product ?
Oct 29, 2013, 7:31 am
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10-B) So you are now in Buenos Aires on a Saturday afternoon in order to attend a brief but very important meeting. However, you are not through traveling yet as your business associate invites you to have dinner in Cordoba (COR)! No problem. You find a nonstop flight that departs Buenos Aires at 1800 local and arrives in Cordoba at 1910. Better yet, you'll be flying on a jet type that you've always wanted to travel on. This aircraft was also a bit of a rare bird in South America. So what air carrier and equipment will you be flying on to Cordoba?
Oct 29, 2013, 7:43 am
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11) It's the spring of 1967 and you are in Amsterdam where you have wrapped up a business meeting with a Dutch marine construction firm that will be performing project work for you. Now it's time to travel to the project site: the coast of Peru. Fortunately, good old KLM has a direct flight from Amsterdam (AMS) to Lima (LIM). So you book a first class seat on the DC-8. Then you discover something interesting: this KL flight makes no less than seven intermediate stops en route! Identify all seven stops in the order in which they were made by this direct, no change of plane flight from AMS to LIM. Partially answered
Oct 29, 2013, 8:12 am
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Thanks, jlemon. Answer to your bonus question. In the summer of 1962, the four routes PSA operated were the nonstop LAX-SFO, two one stop routes consisting of SAN-BUR-SFO and the other, SAN-LAX-SFO. The fourth nonstop route flying on Fridays and Saturdays (the schedule I saw showed Sundays) was SAN-SFO. All flights were operated by Lockheed "Super Electra Jets", consistent with PSA's advertising campaign at that time marketing the turboprop Electras as Jet Service.
Which engenders a hopefully fun question that's not quite a quiz item but may be of interest to followers of this thread nonetheless:
When and on what airline was your first flight?
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Oct 29, 2013, 8:13 am
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Oct 29, 2013, 8:24 am
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13) In the early spring of 1975, this air carrier was operating direct, no change of plane service from Los Angeles (LAX) to Knoxville (TYS) twice a day. One flight was one stop service while the other flight made two intermediate stops en route. Name the airline, the equipment it flew on the service (hint: it was the same aircraft type) and the intermediate stops made by both flights.
And now Jeff I need to sign you up to come do my lawn while I'm gone Saturday for a couple of weeks -- my business travel dropped precipitously this year, so I'm "forced" (how I rationalize) to do some intense travel to maintain 1k status -- I've booked 39,800 miles from Nov 2-16, two domestic MRs, and one to PEK (msy-den-lga/jfk-sfo-pek and back), where I've never been, for a couple of days of sightseeing. I will be home for a couple of nights during the two-week period, but sure won't feel like doing yard work!
Oct 29, 2013, 8:24 am
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Oct 29, 2013, 8:32 am
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This is a bit of a guess -- I'll go with United, 727s, and for routing I'll say LAX-MEM-CHA-TYS and LAX-MEM-TYS.
And now Jeff I need to sign you up to come do my lawn while I'm gone Saturday for a couple of weeks -- my business travel dropped precipitously this year, so I'm "forced" (how I rationalize) to do some intense travel to maintain 1k status -- I've booked 39,800 miles from Nov 2-16, two domestic MRs, and one to PEK (msy-den-lga/jfk-sfo-pek and back), where I've never been, for a couple of days of sightseeing. I will be home for a couple of nights during the two-week period, but sure won't feel like doing yard work!
And now Jeff I need to sign you up to come do my lawn while I'm gone Saturday for a couple of weeks -- my business travel dropped precipitously this year, so I'm "forced" (how I rationalize) to do some intense travel to maintain 1k status -- I've booked 39,800 miles from Nov 2-16, two domestic MRs, and one to PEK (msy-den-lga/jfk-sfo-pek and back), where I've never been, for a couple of days of sightseeing. I will be home for a couple of nights during the two-week period, but sure won't feel like doing yard work!
As for your lawn servicing requirement, I've got my hands full with our little ol' acre....and, in fact, I pressure washed our large wooden deck in the backyard this past weekend which meant I never did get around to mowing the lawn what with various football games as well as the rain we experienced on Sunday......
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Oct 29, 2013, 9:01 am
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First flight -- April, 1954 -- passenger on a private plane, a Fleet Model 80 Canuck joyriding around YXD.
First scheduled flight: 1958 (date uncertain) Trans Canada Airlines (TCA) YXD-YYZ on a Lockheed Super Constellation for a job interview.
First international flight -- 8/8/64 Viasa on a Convair 880, MSY-Maracaibo (MAR).