K5083 Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 This morning I had an enjoyable, but rather heavily researched, outing in GW3. I was searching for real-life vintage airline routes to fly and ran across the archive of old airline timetables at http://www.timetableimages.com, many of you know of this site I'm sure, but wow what a time suck, you can easily spend all the time you set aside for flying the sim looking through those old schedules. Most of them have not only routes, but departure/arrival times and even pricing! Anyway I selected a 1929 Canadian Colonial Airlines New York to Montreal flight (click here) for this morning's flight. Who wouldn't want to do this trip? I fired up the Fairchild 71, departed at the appointed 7:00 am time from Newark, and enjoyed a scenic trip that almost lived up to the airline's 1929 brochure. I did wander off and do a little sightseeing, so I was running 20 minutes behind by the time we landed at Albany, but I didn't hear any complaints from the cabin. I saved both the flight plan and the flight, and it occurred to me, someone else must have done this years ago, and maybe even compiled a lot of the old routes. I was looking through the great reference book, "Airlines of the United States since 1914" by R.E.G. Davies, and it also has a wealth of information about routes, operators and aircraft types, though not usually at the level of departure and arrival times. So does anyone know of a compilaton of these, or at least an old forum thread where people shared them? August Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelseaboy Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 Check out our flights - routes - US and Canada at DC3airways.net. https://www.dc3airways.net/flights/charters/dc3_charters_pirep.htm Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K5083 Posted November 15, 2020 Author Share Posted November 15, 2020 Very nice! Bookmarked. If I get the urge to do an entire airline's timetable in flights and flight plans, I'll use your downloads as a guide to how to package them to share with the community. If so I'll start with small carriers with manageable networks. I see some guys have uploaded more-or-less current full schedules for major airlines. I have no desire either to compile or fly that many flights! August Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgerman Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Check out http://www.historicairlinegroup.com Don Burgess Co-Founder Historic Airline Group http://www.historicairlinegroup.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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