Re-Flight LH-432: Hamburg to Chicago

[haddock]

Hi there,

inspired by the screenshot threads I made my first re-flight of a real classic timetable flight. Here are some pictures and infos about it.

So I was choosen the flight Lufthansa LH-432 from the June 2, 1958. It is a Monday flight from Hamburg to Chicago with stops at Frankfurt, Shannon and Montreal, using a SuperG. (The original flight plan will be found here, take a look into upper
left corner: www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/lh58/lh58-03.jpg)

(Note: The times in brackets are my actually times.)


Trip #1: Hamburg (EDDH) - Frankfurt (EDDF)

Flight: Lufthansa LH-432
Schedule: Lufthansa Summer 1958
Frequency: Mondays only
Departure: Hamburg (EDDH) at 1700 local/1600 GMT (1555 GMT)
Arrival: Frankfurt (EDDF) at 1825 local/1725 GMT (1710 GMT)
Stops: Non-stop
Range: 237 nm
Duration: 01:25 (01:15)
Fuel used: 3199 pd


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Hamburg, rain. "Clear for take off Lufthansa LH-432..."



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Left turn over the Hamburg harbour.



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Approach to Frankfurt.


Trip #2: Frankfurt (EDDF) - Shannon (EINN)

Flight: Lufthansa LH-432
Schedule: Lufthansa Summer 1958
Frequency: Mondays only
Departure: Frankfurt (EDDF) at 1910 local/1810 GMT (1805 GMT)
Arrival: Shannon (EINN) at 2245 local/2245 GMT (2110 GMT)
Stops: Non-stop
Range: 728 nm
Duration: 04:35 (03:05)
Fuel used: 9745 pd


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Lift off in Frankfurt.



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Flying in the last sun light...



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Just before sun down over the Irish Sea.


Trip #3: Shannon (EINN) - Montreal Durval (CYUL)

Flight: Lufthansa LH-432
Schedule: Lufthansa Summer 1958
Frequency: Mondays only
Departure: Shannon (EINN) at 2335 local/2335 GMT (2330 GMT)
Arrival: Montreal Durval (CYUL) at 0620 local/1020 GMT (0907 GMT)
Stops: Non-stop
Range: 2507 nm
Duration: 10:45 (09:27)
Fuel used: 30353 pd


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Take off in Shannon. (Unfortunately the runway lights didn't working at this time in my FS and I was unable to fix the problem in that moment...so sorry, let's say there was a partly power blackout at the airport )



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On the farest point away from any shore over the Atlantic Ocean.



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Touch down in Montreal after 9 hours 27 minutes. (Uups, they had have a power blackout, too?! ;D)



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Some trip infos from that long flight.


Trip #4: Montreal Durval (CYUL) - Chicago O'Hare (KORD)

Flight: Lufthansa LH-432
Schedule: Lufthansa Summer 1958
Frequency: Mondays only
Departure: Montreal Durval (CYUL) at 0735 local/1135 GMT (1134 GMT)
Arrival: Chicago O'Hare (KORD) at 1000 local/1500 GMT (1423 GMT)
Stops: Non-stop
Range: 671 nm
Duration: 03:25 (02:49)
Fuel used: 7289 pd


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Boarding at Montreal for the last trip to Chicago.

(Unfortunately there are no more pictures from the last flight leg because the screenshot program was not running at this time without my notice. This happens by finger trouble during startup the computer. Very sad, I was made really nice shots from the moment of the touchdown. These pics here are restored from the saved flights.)



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Finished the flight in Chicago.



Remarks:
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I don't know if I was using the correct air ways, I was planing VOR-to-VOR using the Victor airways where possible and I was flying IFR. Not a big problem over land but what happened off shore in the past? I was lucky because the FS ATC was corrected my way over the Atlantic but how the did it in 1958? (Short answer or a link would be ok.)

Last but not least it was a great fun planing and flying the routes. It shows me the need of more precisely my fuel planing and meeting the timetable. I will try to make it better at the next time.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Greetings
Haddock

[sunny9850]

Very nice looking series of shots there. And using my favorite airplane in the colors of my favorite airline certainly doesn't hurt
Back in the day before INS or GPS derived position over the water your Navigator would have been in charge of keeping the airplane on course using all sorts of fancy equipment such as a Sextant, Compass and SlideRule + E6B to calculate where you are at and where you are going.

Stefan

[coenraad]

Cool pic series.

[Defender]

Hi Haddock,

North Atlantic navigation 1958. Have a look at these links to Flight Global magazine archives.

www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1955/1955%20-%200322.html?search=atc

This 1955 article is three pages. You'll see that at least up until 1955, you could take a straight line between the last Europe beacon and the first US/Canadian ADIZ.

www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1958/1958%20-%200980.html?search=atc

This 1958 report reveals the introduction of the system that is still in force. You'll see it mentions that the new lateral separation of one degree latitude replaces two degree separation. I don't know whether this two degrees replaced the 1955 direct arrangement. Perhaps someone else knows?

Hope this adds to your enjoyment of recreating these old days.

Bill

[haddock]

Hi Stefan!

Mar 27, 2010 13:40:16 GMT -5 sunny9850 said:

Very nice looking series of shots there. And using my favorite airplane in the colors of my favorite airline certainly doesn't hurt

Oh, you was flying this plane last time? I found a "seven seas" sticker in the cockpit. Is it your's?


Greetings
Haddock

[haddock]

Hi Bill!

Mar 27, 2010 15:30:30 GMT -5 Defender said:

North Atlantic navigation 1958. Have a look at these links to Flight Global magazine archives.

[...]

Hope this adds to your enjoyment of recreating these old days.

I was asking for a short answer but...uff, it will take some time to read the whole articles and understanding the half (hopefully). ;D

Many thanks.

Greetings
Haddock

[haddock]

Hi there,

for those who like the pictures of LH-432 I was uploading the whole pictures of this flight to this location:

www.nos57.de/calclassic/cc_lh-432_pictures.zip

There are 123 pictures in full resolution in this archive, file size 15 MB. It contains a lot of very nice shots with the SuperG in the late sun light. You can take the filenames as a guideline of the legs: "s1" up to "s4" means "step 1" to "step 4" aka the flight legs.

If you want, enjoy it.

Greetings
Haddock