I was flying co pilot on the 1049H at Tigers back in 1965. My first trip was a pax configured charter from KEWR to KONT. The airplane was former KLM Connie that Tigers had acquired from KLM. It crashed many years later down in Mesa, AZ after Tigers had sold it.
The clearance from EWER was to cross a fix somewhere in Pennsylvania at 10,000. The Captain looked over at me said something to the effect that we would not be able to make that crossing restriction. At the time the east cost of the US might as well have been the backside of the moon to me. I conveyed the Capts thoughts and the controller said, "standby". A minute or two later he came back with a new clearance and said we were to cross Kansas City at or above 10,000. I laughed of course since KC is half way across the United States.
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