Was the Mendota sub utilized as a detour due to the Galena derailment?
How long until traffic routing and flow returns to "normal" with the Galena derailment location reopened to traffic?
Wizlish NorthWest The L-188s, after the engine mount issues were resolved, went on to be very reliable aircraft, they just got caught up in the introduction of jet aircraft a few years later. Yes, once the Electras were fixed, they were fine aircraft ... didn't they serve as backup power on the NYC-Washington air shuttle into the 1980s, a bit like K4s on the Long Branch almost making it into the '60s? ... but they had to have the unanticipated problem fixed first. Comets were reliable, too, after the stress raisers at the window corners were removed. Let's not forget static wick location on Boeings, either.
NorthWest The L-188s, after the engine mount issues were resolved, went on to be very reliable aircraft, they just got caught up in the introduction of jet aircraft a few years later.
Yes, once the Electras were fixed, they were fine aircraft ... didn't they serve as backup power on the NYC-Washington air shuttle into the 1980s, a bit like K4s on the Long Branch almost making it into the '60s? ... but they had to have the unanticipated problem fixed first. Comets were reliable, too, after the stress raisers at the window corners were removed. Let's not forget static wick location on Boeings, either.
In probably 1980 or 1981 I flew on an Electra, from Tallahassee FL to Chattanooga TN. At that time the Boise Interagency Fire Center had at least one to use shuttling forest fire-fighting crews around, and that's why I was on it. The seats were nice and roomy (of course, I was a lot thinner then).
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