Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - 1964 Yellowbirds Southern Migration

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler \| Airline Operations \| 1964 Yellowbirds Southern Migration

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DVA2887 Senior Captain, A320 OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV E-MAIL Joined on January 30 2006 50 State Club Globetrotter Tri-Jet Triumph US Coastal Club Millennium Club DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary US Mountaineer Club Toulouse 250 Club Online Eight Century Charlotte, NC 1,286 legs, 1,796.2 hours 840 legs, 1,047.8 hours online 1,268 legs, 1,774.2 hours ACARS 31 legs, 49.6 hours event 3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours	Posted onPost created on April 24 2015 12:12 ET by Andrew Vane
	Once the Jet Age took flight in the 60's (pun intended), Northeast Airlines expanded their fleet to Boeing 727's (the finest aircraft ever built BTW) and also leased six Convair 880's. These faster and higher capacity aircraft allowed Boston based Northeast Airlines to not only promote global warming but expand into their competitor's territory, primarily in the southeast to Miami. This was quite an accomplishment for a relatively small northeast based airline. Perhaps it was this type of expansion that encouraged Delta to merge in 1972. Northeast also eventually expanded to Bermuda and the Bahamas before changing their colors. Schedule Database: NEH Flight Numbers: 1500, 1501 Route: KBOS-KPHL-KMIA Length: 243NM-883NM
DVA9707 Captain, DC-6 OLP Joined on April 19 2011 50 State Club Piston Prop Professional Online Double Century Club US Mountaineer Club Everett 250 Club DVA Ten-Year Anniversary US Coastal Club Quincentenary Club "They can't retire Gramps Payne at age 81!!!...." Leonardtown, MD USA 590 legs, 898.2 hours 256 legs, 415.2 hours online 585 legs, 885.2 hours ACARS 16 legs, 32.7 hours event	Posted onPost created on April 24 2015 22:59 ET by Michael Payne
	CV-880 - quite a BIRD. we had one at Pax River Naval Air Test Center in the late '90s to use for a range aircraft for Tomahawk cruise missile testing. It was the only aircraft both big and fast enough to keep up with the Tomahawk and carry all of the instrumentation we needed. We instrumented it and used it for several years. When it took the duty rw to take off, it drew all eyes until we got used to the prodigious amount of black smoke from those CJ-805s, which were really just modified J-79s that we were using in the F-4 Phantom. Since the Phantoms were retired by the F-14 Tomcat, we had plenty of spare engines....and we needed them.... Thanks for giving us another fun route, Andrew.

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