Eastern Airlines – “Flying with Arthur Godfrey” ‘54
BY Allan Lowson
(image copyright Bjorn
Larsson www.timetableimages.com)
Flying
with Arthur Godfrey
After a comment on a forum I found the following three
links to parts of the 1953 film “Flying with Arthur Godfrey”.
A low quality copy of the full film is available on:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3233965115528187277
Higher
quality extracts are in the following two links, these specifically include the
Constellation flight from New York Idlewild (modern JFK) to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rgzAnrI6Bw&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCL7FglFapY&feature=related
These routes and times were taken from the 1954 timetable of
Bjorn Larsson on www.timetableimages.com.
The first flight which we will cover is the direct flight
635 leaving Idlewild at 2pm (as Arthur’s flight did.) Remember to cruise at
22,000’.
|
Heading |
Distance |
Time |
City Name |
ICAO |
Nav |
Freq |
|
235 |
0 |
2:00PM local |
|
KJFK |
|
|
|
240 |
25.3 |
|
|
|
|
115.40 |
|
234 |
27.0 |
|
|
|
GXU |
110.60 |
|
227 |
63.1 |
|
|
|
ENO |
111.40 |
|
232 |
70.1 |
|
|
|
PXT |
117.60 |
|
219 |
64.2 |
|
|
|
RIC |
114.10 |
|
216 |
162.8 |
|
|
|
POB |
113.80 |
|
227 |
63.8 |
|
|
|
FLO |
115.20 |
|
208 |
60.2 |
|
|
|
VAN |
110.40 |
|
178 |
85.7 |
|
|
|
SAV |
112.70 |
|
177 |
213.1 |
|
|
|
TTS |
112.25 |
|
185 |
31.4 |
|
|
|
MLB |
110.00 |
|
165 |
79.4 |
|
|
|
PHK |
115.40 |
|
104 |
61.8 |
|
|
|
DHP |
113.90 |
|
|
3.9 |
5:00PM |
|
KMIA |
|
|
Secondly, we will return North via Tampa, Atlanta and
Washington following the route of flight 532.
|
Heading |
Distance |
Time |
City Name |
ICAO |
Nav |
Freq |
|
284 |
0 |
7:05AM (local) |
|
KMIA |
|
|
|
345 |
3.9 |
|
|
|
DHP |
113.90 |
|
309 |
61.8 |
|
|
|
PHK |
115.40 |
|
|
121.4 |
8:04AM |
|
KTPA |
|
|
|
001 |
0 |
8:25AM |
|
KTPA |
|
|
|
336 |
151.7 |
|
|
|
|
112.90 |
|
335 |
210.4 |
|
|
|
ATL |
116.90 |
|
|
9.6 |
10:08AM |
|
KFTY |
|
|
|
062 |
0 |
10:35AM |
|
KFTY |
|
|
|
060 |
12.7 |
|
|
|
PDK |
116.60 |
|
048 |
136.3 |
|
|
|
SPA |
115.70 |
|
038 |
255.0 |
|
|
|
GVE |
115.60 |
|
|
64.7 |
1:45PM |
|
KIAD |
|
|
|
076 |
0 |
2:!0PM |
|
KIAD |
|
|
|
063 |
108.2 |
|
|
|
OOD |
112.80 |
|
054 |
66.4 |
|
|
|
|
115.40 |
|
|
25.3 |
3:13PM |
|
KJFK |
|
|
Aircraft Downloads
The
Lockheed Constellation base file is available from Flightsim in FSDZL049.zip.
An
appropriate Eastern texture set is also at Flightsim in L049a.zip.
In
the film Arthur also mentions the Eastern Airline Martin 4-0-4 “Silver Falcon”.
This is available from Flightsim in M404EAL.zip.