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Old 15th Nov 2008, 23:14
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The old Eastern Air Lines Duckhawk paintjob was one of the worst to maintain. It had Reds, Blues and whites and gold metalic tape to boot. Even the piston engine nacelles were painted. The also like to include advertising signage right on the fuselage like"
"FLY EASTERN AIR LINES NEW 13,000 HORSEPOWER SUPER C CONSTELLATIONS". What a mouthful and painted right next to to the pax entrance door. The name on the fuselage was always "Fly Eastern" or "Fly Eastern Air Lines". Allegedly Capt Rickenbacker would take an advertising tax write-off for the paint jobs on the aircraft.
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Mohawk's flight numbers were in the 1890-1899 series:



Beer, pretzels, & cigars served. Need I say more?
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DC-Ate's Captial Connie is totally captivating! Oh, how I yearn to hear the engi.....

We all have our memories of rides on the Connie.

Mine is of a 36 hour flight rom Resolute Bay to Montreal on a Nordair 1049G in 1966, via Hall Beach, Fort Chimo and other exotic locales. At every route stop the hydraulic system needed close attention and replenishment, which needed plenty of ground time to rustle up the vast quantities of the 5606 fluid required.

It was always known as the 'world's best three engine airliner', to which I might add '...without a functioning hydraulic system'.

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I rode a Capital Airlines Connie from Chicago to Washington in turbulent weather. Seated at the very aft end of the cabin, I swear I could see the fuselage twisting. Of course there was a lot rattling of the cupboard doors.

I was a white knuckle pax back then, even in smooth weather.
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Gulf Aviation in Bahrain before they became Gulf Air.

Any pictures around ??

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I am enjoying this thread, thank-you.

The orange CP fleet of the 1970s - 1980s were known as "The Flying Mandarins."
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"What dihedral?"

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Unhappy Court Line

Anyone got pics of the Court Line aircraft.
I know they had two Tristars, Halcayon Days and Halcayon Breeze, one was pink, the other Orange.
I flew Luton - Ibiza on the Orange one, and back on the pink one in 1973 when I was a boy.
The pink one had a problem on take-off, i.e. didn't make it into the air - exciting times. Eventually came back on a Caravelle as the Tristar was u/s.
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Only a model I'm afraid

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My last name bears an uncanny resemblance to the name of that company.
One day in Gander we taxiied past that pink 1011 and the F/O inquired if it was one of mine and did hairdressing run rampant in my family.
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Gulf Aviation in Bahrain before they became Gulf Air.

Any pictures around ??

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Since you ask, here's my only one from that time, around 1970 at Al Ayn, apologies for the quality and to those who have seen it before....you are looking at the apron, the terminal, the check-in desk, the security barrier and the baggage collection area. Out of sight is a Landrover which was the CFR service, met. station, emergency starting equipment, and Control Tower. One of the figures in the pic is the controller, CFR service, met observer, check-in agent, baggage loader/unloader, passenger boarding agent and ticket sales agent and pilot's engineering assistant if needed.

The crew are in the cockpit eating sandwiches, of course. The ambient temperature is about +45.


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How much Mary Kay do I have to sell so I can "drive" that to the next distributor's meeting?
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Awwwwwww..........a cutsie wootsie, itty-bitty mandarin.
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