Do you know your history?

[ctab5060X]

This particular airplane was brought up in conversation last night, and with it came a question.

Figured I would bring it to the top in a thread of its own.

What is it and why is it important?

 

[pfitmx15]

Sopwith Camel???

matt

 

[darrenf]

Sopwith Camel???

matt

Nope.

I bet you T-Cart knows what it is. hint..hint. Doug should know too.

 

[bafanguy]

Does it say "Huff Daland Duster, Monroe Louisiana" on the side ? If so, it's an original Delta (pre-airline) airplane.

 

[planejay]

looks like a Lear 23

 

[WacoFan]

T-cart and I answered this one correctly last night, but Ctab made us do it in PM's.

Bafanguy is correct for the most part - but can he, or anyone else elaborate?

 

[WacoFan]

Do you think the Delta guys around here know, but didn't answer. Or, did they not answer because they do not know?

 

[bafanguy]

Delta began as a crop dusting operation is all
I know.

 

[ppragman]

Does it say "Huff Daland Duster, Monroe Louisiana" on the side ? If so, it's an original Delta (pre-airline) airplane.

Delta = portmanteau of Deland + Duster (dustahh' with thick suthun' accent) ?

 

[SteveC]

Do you think the Delta guys around here know, but didn't answer. Or, did they not answer because they do not know?

...or option three; they haven't seen this post in the 14 minutes between the time it was first posted until yours.

anic:

 

[bdhill1979]

...or option three; they haven't seen this post in the 14 minutes between the time it was first posted until yours.

anic:

You mean Doug is not monitoring this whilst enroute to Istanbul?

 

[ctab5060X]

You mean Doug is not monitoring this whilst enroute to Istanbul?

And here I was thinking that WIFI was limited to the skies over Alabama and Mississippi

 

[bafanguy]

"The new company was named Delta Air Service, and then Delta Air Corporation ("Delta" for the Mississippi Delta region). "




http://deltamuseum.org/M_Education_DeltaHistory_Facts_History.htm

 

[SteveC]

You mean Doug is not monitoring this whilst enroute to Istanbul?

"Whilst"?

Art thou British perchance?

 

[bdhill1979]

"Whilst"?

Art thou British perchance?

What do they know of the english language?

 

[WacoFan]

...or option three; they haven't seen this post in the 14 minutes between the time it was first posted until yours.

anic:

True...but I am thinking that many may not know. I have posted before about Huff Daland Dusters when remarking that Delta would have been better served by keeping the dusting operation and ditching the pax ops in 1966 and it seemed as if they didn't know.

 

[SteveC]

True...but I am thinking that many may not know. I have posted before about Huff Daland Dusters when remarking that Delta would have been better served by keeping the dusting operation and ditching the pax ops in 1966 and it seemed as if they didn't know.

I can't imagine why very many would know that bit of trivia. It probably isn't covered in ground school or indoc.

 

[rdsoxpilot]

I know where that museum is...do I get bonus points?