THE CAPTAINS IN FLIGHT REPORT
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Here is one of those great little items from the long ago days of flying, an actual in-flight progress report for the passengers, written by the flight crew.
This report is from Eastern Airlines Flight 654 a DC-3 flight from Miami to Boston on January 20, 1950.
Unfortunately they never wrote down the tail number of the DC-3, but looking at my old airways chart the flight was flying over Camden S.C. along RED 16 with Florence as its next POR.
WHAT COMFORT
The Schedule for 654 was:
Miami…………… Lv.8:35 A.M.
Vero Beach………. Lv. 9:35 A.M.
Daytona …………..Lv 10:29 A.M.
Jacksonville …….. Ar 11:10 A.M.
…….. Lv 11:30 A.M.
Charleston SC….. Lv 12:54 P.M.
Charlotte N.C……Ar 2:09 P.M.
Lv 2:19 P.M.
Greensboro NC …Lv 3:06 P.M.
Washington DC…Ar 4:45 P.M.
Lv 5:10 P.M.
Baltimore……….Ar 5:32 P.M.
Lv 5:40 P.M.
Atlantic City…....Lv 6:40 P.M
Newark……….. Ar. 7:20 P.M.
Lv 7:50 P.M.
Boston………...Ar. 9:15 P.M.
Almost 13 hours in an old DC-3, that would have been fun.
