And then there were three...
 

5. (1958) It’s autumn of 1958 and you’re excited to be making your first trans-continental trip. Your flight will depart from Hartford’s Bradley International Airport and make three stops enroute to your destination at Oakland International Airport, conveniently located just four miles from your uncle’s house in San Leandro. Identify the airline, the aircraft and the three enroute stops you’ll make.
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12. (1961) You’ve been wanting to take your wife on vacation to Portugal for years. Now that a new two-stop direct jet flight has become available between Miami and Lisbon, what’s stopping you? Why, nothing, Senhor! Please identify the airline, the two enroute stops and of course the aircraft type to be flown.
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30. (1988) You need to fly from Nassau in the Bahamas up to Hartford, Connecticut. To your surprise, the market is served by a single once daily direct flight that makes just one stop along the way. You quickly book yourself a First Class seat. Which airline will you be flying with? And while we’re at it, what’s the enroute stop and what type of aircraft will you be flying upon?
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Caravelle ….

The UK equivalent to this is probably Ham, Egg and Chips, a staple of pubs and served to varying standards from mediocre to superb. Of course, the best one of all is that put out by your own mum, maybe for a Saturday lunch in youthful years. Ham, a big fried ham steak; eggs, done UK style, ie fried the way the COOK likes them, not of your "sunny side up over easy" specification; chips again not US style, nor even McDonalds fries, but big sliced up ones made from proper potatoes.

Now it just so happens that on a business trip two days ago, on my way home I chanced by a pub I've known, very occasionally, for more years than I care to admit, way out in the countryside beyond Cambridge, so given the heat of the day, and notwithstanding the AC in the car, I decided to go in for a drink. And there was an absolute classic pub menu, featuring exactly this, although on this occasion I didn't order it.

http://www.maidsheadwicken.com/wp-co...Snack-Menu.pdf

If you want a real bit of old England the pub is this one About Us ? Maids Head . It has an elegant restaurant side, and a pub bar side where the drinks are cheaper and the seats are wooden but the food is just the same. Highly recommended.

Those old enough to remember the movie Shirley Valentine may recollect the scene when she had got a casual waitress job in a Greek holiday resort taverna, with the elderly English couple looking gloomily at the Mediterranean dishes on the menu, when she offers them quietly "it's not on the menu but I could make you both some ham egg and chips" - and their holiday is duly brightened.

I suppose I should put SOMETHING about aviation content here, so will merely add that when I was in the parking lot of the pub there one quiet winter morning in the 1990s I got beaten up by a USAF KC-135 tanker, likely from Mildenhall base, seen from afar to be coming over the decidedly flat landscape straight over me at about 1,000 feet, leaving a significant smoke trail behind it.

5. (1958) It’s autumn of 1958 and you’re excited to be making your first trans-continental trip. Your flight will depart from Hartford’s Bradley International Airport and make three stops enroute to your destination at Oakland International Airport, conveniently located just four miles from your uncle’s house in San Leandro. Identify the airline, the aircraft and the three enroute stops you’ll make.

I don't know much from the pre-jet era. True, the Comet was flying in 1958.

TWA, Lockheed Constellation, BDL - PIT - MDW - STL - OAK

I'll guess it was Aerovias Guest, operating a leased Mexicana Comet, running Mexico City-Miami-Bermuda-Santa Maria-Lisbon-Madrid.

5. Ah, I think I know the identity of this airline with this knowledge coming from my roots in southern California (I was born and raised in Pasadena and became familiar with Burbank Airport at an early age)....

The airline was Transocean Air Lines operating Lockheed Constellation service on a routing of Hartford - New York Idlewild - Chicago Midway - Burbank - Oakland. I do not think the service was operated on a daily basis.

I also believe Transocean operated nonstop Constellation service from both Burbank and Oakland to Honolulu with one of these flights continuing on to Wake Island, Guam and Okinawa. In the case of Burbank, this was the first nonstop service between BUR and HNL. It would be many years before another air carrier would operate BUR-HNL nonstop flights and that airline was Aloha with B737-700 ETOPS service.

BTW, in later years there was a another airline which used the Transocean name and they were based right down the road from yours truly here in southern Louisiana. This air carrier was primarily a charter outfit which operated Convair 580 and Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprops as well as B727-100, B727-200 and Super DC-8 aircraft (including a series -71 that had been previously flown by United). This version of Transocean (they used the name TransOcean Airways) began life as Gulf Air Transport and was based at the Acadiana Regional Airport (ARA) in New Iberia.

Hmmmm....how many Avios do I still have in my BA account.....ah, excellent! I'll be right over..... :cool:

I love those old English pubs and inns and have had the good fortune to visit three or four in years past. Hopefully I'll get to visit three or four more in the coming years...

The Last Question
 

30. (1988) You need to fly from Nassau in the Bahamas up to Hartford, Connecticut. To your surprise, the market is served by a single once daily direct flight that makes just one stop along the way. You quickly book yourself a First Class seat. Which airline will you be flying with? And while we’re at it, what’s the enroute stop and what type of aircraft will you be flying upon?
See Post 16010
HINT: You'll be in First Class aboard a twin engine jet. Luncheon will be served enroute...