Hello and welcome to the corporate casket, a semi-weekly series where bad businesses go to die.

We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and people that have a lot to hide.

Now today's episode is both a corporate casket and in a way a prism of the past too. We're going to be talking

about Eastern Airlines today. Their growth throughout their jet age, the controversy surrounding

them, and the new Eastern Airlines has been restarted in the past couple of years.

Airlines rise, falls, crashes, all that stuff are really, really interesting things to me,

so I'm happy that I was able to bring some of it to the channel finally.

So with all of that being said, let's get into Eastern Airlines very unique and complicated

history.

The history of Eastern begins in the 1920s when it was founded under a different name, Pitcairn Airlines, a young engineer Harold F. Pitcairn was developing an interest in aviation.

He started off as an apprentice with the Curtis Aeroplane and Motor Company, and eventually

toward the end of the First World War began his flight training.

Around 1924, he established the Pitcairn Flying School and Passenger Service and grew a thriving mail service business. Around the same time, Juan de Siavera, a Spanish aeronautical engineer, had developed the articulated articulated motor resulting in the world's first

successful flight of a rotary wing aircraft.

He continued to refine his invention and in 1926 founded the Sierra Auto Grio Company.

A couple years later, Wannen Harold's paths collided as Harold became fascinated with

Otto Grios and the idea of vertical flight.

Otto Grios are a bit different from what you might and the idea of vertical flight.

Arogyos are a bit different from what you might picture when you think of a normal

plane.

As one source explains, Siava knew that an airplane wing provides lift, but only as it moves forward through the air.

He wondered if a rotating wing circling freely over a conventional aircraft would also confer

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