Australian Division Connie Pilots

[paladin]

Ladies and Gentlemen

I am planning to fly "The around the world forerunner flight" and I was wondering if you folks would be interested in making this a joint Australian division operation. We have 17 flights around 94 hours in the air which we could alternate between interested pilots. Call it a Bluegrass Airlines Australian division promotional flight if ya wish (if thats ok with the management),or just fly it for the heck of it.

Any body interested ??

Regards
Walt

[Allan_Lowson]

As I was born a few months after my mother flew by QANTAS Connie from Calcutta to Heathrow, and then my own second flight a year later was by KLM Connie from Amsterdam to Calcutta, I should have a go at least for part of the route.

The QANTAS Connie lost an engine between Calcutta and Karachi, so perhaps I should stick to overland parts of the route. Mothers were made of sterner stuff in those days.

[Ed Burke]

My one Connie flight was late 1954, Darwin to Sydney, a night haul which went with boring regularity as far as the aircraft was concerned but one of the passengers having a nasty dream fell screaming into the aisle with such a thump that there was a bod there from the flight deck in seconds flat , even beating the cabin crew by a good margin !!!

That incident aside, it was a very pleasant flight for a propellor head like myself.

Tangled up with home duties and trying to organise myself out of Mexico City for points South and East but I will try and get in some four engine time with you.

Ed

[paladin]

Completed the 7th leg of the flight last night,a twelve and a half hour flight from Washington DC to London.......next stop Frankfurt Germany.

[Ed Burke]

Hi Paladin, I have flown the Heathrow to Frankfurt am Main leg. Athens next ?

Ed