Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Historical DC-6 Flight Added: 1956 The Rocket

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Historical DC-6 Flight Added: 1956 The Rocket

DVA2887
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Charlotte, NC

1,287 legs, 1,796.9 hours
841 legs, 1,048.5 hours online
1,269 legs, 1,774.9 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on November 20 2018 12:19 ET by Andrew Vane

Interesting flight from Delta's 1956 schedule. They named long hauls back then and this one was called The Rocket.

DVH5831 Legs 1 - 6
KSFO - KPHX - KTUS - KELP - KDAL - KMSY - KATL
DC-6

These flights start at 2135 Local time and end at 1149 Atlanta time so enjoy the night time scenery. DVA will get you to Atlanta in time for lunch!

Enjoy!
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Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on November 20 2018 12:45 ET by Andrew Vane

Here are some non-RNAV routes for you hard core propliner pilots:

KSFO KPHX
SFO9 SFO OAK V107 PXN V230 CZQ V23 EHF V197 PMD V137 PSP T306 BLH blh5

KPHX KTUS
MOBIE4 TFD DNGO5

KTUS KELP
TUS JOKIM T306 CUS T306 ELP

KELP KDAL
ELP V222 SFL V94 INK KNEAD7

KDAL KMSY
BACH7 SWB AEX V114 LSU AWDAD1

KMSY KATL
PCU V70 GCV LGC4

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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Las Cruces, NM

3,338 legs, 6,583.0 hours
3,269 legs, 6,426.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on November 21 2018 10:03 ET by Brian Donaldson

Whoohoo!

Brian Donaldson

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Yellowstone National Park, WY

2,910 legs, 8,080.5 hours
81 legs, 119.2 hours online
2,693 legs, 7,192.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on November 21 2018 13:39 ET by Tim Knight

Alrighty! Low and slow!

Tim Knight

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Hampton, GA USA

1,928 legs, 2,899.4 hours
5 legs, 3.8 hours online
1,921 legs, 2,889.4 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on November 21 2018 23:28 ET by Jim Daigneau

Having special names for specific flights dates to pre-WW2 for a few airlines. For example, American used names like "The Niagra" and 'The Night Owl" as early as 1935 when they got those spiffy DSTs, and still flying the Condors. Pan Am, predictably, got into the act early too with the Clippers and the "The Orient Express". Delta started naming flights after the war with "The Meteor", "The Comet" and "The Rocket". Eastern, Delta's main competitor in ATL, didn't name flights but they coined the name "The Great Silver Fleet" for their airplanes in 1939.
The practice came from competition. The domestic carriers' main competition was the rail roads. Rail roads were affordable, comfortable, efficient and usually safe. Plus, to be distinctive, they named trains like AT&SF "Super Chief" and "Santa Fe Eight". It was cool. Instead of just saying "I'm taking the train", you could say "Yeah, man, I'm riding the Super Chief all the way!" Cool. But of course, trains were slower, so the airlines' sales pitch relied on names to echo the efficiency of the airplane. (I left comfort and affordable out for a reason. Until after the war, when pressurization and a/c was more common, flying could still be pretty miserable.) As we know from history, it was the jet age that really got ball rolling for affordable, efficient and safe air travel.
"The Rocket" that Andrew mentions was also one of the many "interchange" flights that was common practice to extend a route without actual CAA route authority. The airplane would get an American or National crew in MSY and DAL to fly the rest of the way to the west coast and back to Dallas.
Very interesting times.
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!

Jim Daigneau (DVA5643)

Posted onPost created on November 22 2018 08:06 ET by Andrew Vane

Thanks for the great history lesson Jim! Have a great Turkey Day!

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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Kannapolis, NC

558 legs, 1,984.3 hours
250 legs, 611.8 hours online
384 legs, 1,530.5 hours ACARS
38 legs, 82.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 27 2018 20:23 ET by Lewis Gregory

Jim, Amtrak still carries some of those classic passenger train names to this day. When my wife and daughter took an Amtrak trip from Charlotte to Washington to Chicago to Seattle a couple summers back, the train they took from Chicago to Seattle was known as the Empire Builder, which was a name used by the Great Northern and later the Burlington Northern for their passenger service on the same route.

Lewis Gregory

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