Earning Their Wings: Eastern 757s

RStretton

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Earning Their Wings: Eastern 757s

07-17-2019, 02:29 AM

I find the history of Eastern to be extremely interesting, which is one of the reasons they feature in the blog so often. We've also been getting a lot of Eastern 757s recently so following on from my A300 post it makes sense to look into the history of the 757 at one of its launch customers:

Earning Their Wings: Eastern 757s - YESTERDAY'S AIRLINES

https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/airline-history-blog/earning-their-wings-eastern-757s

Eastern struggled through the deregulation era, even prior to the Lorenzo led Texas Air takeover, however one of the few bright spots for EAL was the acquisition of the new Boeing 757-200, which proved itself a fine acquisition to the fleet right up until the airline’s final closure. Even so, despite the need for the

Eastern Air Lines Boeing 757-225s by rstretton, on Flickr

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07-18-2019, 10:26 AM

Hey, Captain, your website is extremely appreciated. What a resource it is!!
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