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Post by Christian Page, RAI on May 21, 2007 18:50:55 GMT -5
I thought I'd bounce this off everyone and see what your thoughts were. I was thinking of adding a couple of other sections, which would be linked to the deacdes as well, call "first call" and "last call" - which would feature the first and last timetables published by an airline, respectively. The last Swissair, Sabena, TWA, Western Pacific, Braniff, etc. The first ones as well - Braniff Airways, for example didn't publish a timetable until March of 1931, but its namesake predecessor, Paul R. Braniff, Inc. dba Oklahoma City-Tulsa Airline and later Braniff Airline, did publish it's very first Stinson Detroiter schedule in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa newspapers, so I have them going all the way back to 1928. Some of these old schedules may be difficult, due to the fact they used airports that no longer exist - like Oklahoma City's Curtiss-Wright. But, it's a thought - at least the final schedules are do-able, those early ones may not be. The early ones I thought that maybe the Golden Wings fans would appreciate, becasue pre-WW II AI is pretty non-existent, at least based off real schedules.
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Post by chrisP on May 21, 2007 18:57:27 GMT -5
Interesting idea - definitely worth a shot.
edit: how about broadening it a bit to include schedules from a "special year". For instance, the US bicentennial schedules for which the aircraft would have a special sticker/livery or the Mexicana '98 (?) with a bunch of different c/s....
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Post by Andy on May 22, 2007 10:50:29 GMT -5
I certainly don't think it's a bad idea. However, I fly in reconstructed "retro worlds" of the early 1970's, mid-1960's, and mid-1950's. What I need are large amounts of timetables from these eras. A single timetable from a different era isn't of much use to me. But that's just me.  Andy |
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on May 22, 2007 18:43:25 GMT -5
Interesting idea - definitely worth a shot. edit: how about broadening it a bit to include schedules from a "special year". For instance, the US bicentennial schedules for which the aircraft would have a special sticker/livery or the Mexicana '98 (?) with a bunch of different c/s.... That's also a good idea. I haven't honestly gone through the Western Pacific schedules, but we never got the same plane two days in a row, and each had a different scheme. How do you work that one out? Southwest and America West's special schemes also come to mind, as do the Braniff Calders. During the Bicentennial, the Calder 727 was parked at the gate at KOKC when an American 727 was coming in. The American pilot called on the ground frequency - "Oh, I see the circus is in town!" Braniff ground ops called back "American, I can't say what I'm thinking, but it starts with an 'F' and ends with a 'U'!" It was a good thing that Braniff and American were on opposite concourses of the old terminal... I'd even like to work funny little things like that in, if there was a way. |
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Post by chrisP on May 22, 2007 20:17:01 GMT -5
From what we already have in the bank, we've got a few '76ers, El Al '78 (30th anniv. of Israel). I've also the timetable (no work done on it yet) for LOT's 50th anniv, so that would be a start.
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Post by jetstar on May 23, 2007 13:11:55 GMT -5
Interesting idea - definitely worth a shot. edit: how about broadening it a bit to include schedules from a "special year". For instance, the US bicentennial schedules for which the aircraft would have a special sticker/livery or the Mexicana '98 (?) with a bunch of different c/s.... That's also a good idea. I haven't honestly gone through the Western Pacific schedules, but we never got the same plane two days in a row, and each had a different scheme. How do you work that one out? Southwest and America West's special schemes also come to mind, as do the Braniff Calders. During the Bicentennial, the Calder 727 was parked at the gate at KOKC when an American 727 was coming in. The American pilot called on the ground frequency - "Oh, I see the circus is in town!" Braniff ground ops called back "American, I can't say what I'm thinking, but it starts with an 'F' and ends with a 'U'!" It was a good thing that Braniff and American were on opposite concourses of the old terminal... I'd even like to work funny little things like that in, if there was a way. Hi Kris. I have all but about two of the WestPac timetables. No2 & 3 are (I hope) still coded on my RAi HD partition. I hope to release them all one day. I think I have the first and last Independence Air schedules as well. Seem like a good idea to me. Paul |
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