Peter Sayers - glad you reminded me of HH's visit - I really must get the slides from back then scanned... It's possible there were two such visits as he was interested in TCA/AC's Viscount ops and later during the first days of the DC-9 service.

Written on 2020年 03月 20日

The "Air Bus" service was a different service from the Shuttle (BOS/IDL/DCA). Info on the routes can be found on the 1963 schedule http://timetableimages.com/ttimages/ea/ea63/ea63-02.jpg.
IIRC the red scheme crept in when EAL started to allocate specific aircraft to the Shuttle and AirBus services but they also popped about other services (to YUL) on occasion.

The "hockey stick" didn't appear until after the departure of Eddie Rickenbacker in 1964. Prior to this the Eastern jet fleet all wore variations of the modernized "Great Silver Fleet" design - the blue equivalent of the red scheme of your postcard as seen on the L188. THe DC-8 intro colours were different.

The Connie did indeed wear that ugly hockey stick. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac3/Airline/Eastern%20Air%20Lines%20L-1049C_G%20Super%20Constellation.html

Written on 2015年 08月 21日