Atlantic Crossings

[warbaby]

I recently saw an old 50s movie, in which the main character flew from Lisbon to New York. No film of any aircraft except for a far distant shot of what appeared to be a L-749. I'm assuming PAA.
In the film, the main character received a telegram from "the last stop". With a little research the layover most likely was the Azores.
This has interested me to fly the flight, Lisbon to the Azores to New York. I have done plenty of flights in modern jets, but never an aircraft from this era.
I will probably fly to the Azores, and attempt the rest of the flight another time.
If any of you have flown the Atlantic in real-time or otherwise, how did you do it.

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi,

Both Pan American and TWA flew Constellations New York - Azores - Lisbon and visa versa in 1955. TWA also listed one westbound non-stop, although the footnote reads "fuel stop may be required".

[guestairways]

Hi.

I`ve done it a couple of times in the Super Constellation, flying the route MMMX-KMIA-TXKF-LPAZ-LPPT-LEMD (Mexico-Madrid); both east/west bound. It's a little bit tricky, mainly because of the winds aloft and depending the season you could get heavy headwind when flying westbound. There's also a lot of possibilities of encountering icing conditions at the final cruise altitude (between FL200 /210).

If you fly online in the Vatsim network, checkout the crossing SOPs... some controllers can be somehow fussy.

[Deleted]

Hi,

In October 1959 I flew back from Idlewild to Zurich with a DC-7C Swissair and stopped at Santa Maria, Azores. Then we flew on to Cologne Bonn and finally Zurich. At that time the Azores were a regular stop on eastbound, like Shannon on westbound. End Fifties, with the more performing aircraft, stops at Gander haven't been necessary anymore.

Cheers,
Bernard