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1946
1946 - 1331.PDF
JULY IITH, 1946 FLIGHT Viking Visits the Norse Exclusive photographs of a tour of Scandinavia by a demonstration Vickers Viking. As a result of the visit at least five Vikings were sold to the Danes and further business may result. In this modern invasion the story of the ancient Vikings and Danegeld is exactly reversed. I. Ready for the journey. The Viking, in its resplen-dent coat of new paint, on the tarmac at Vickers airfield at Wisley in Surrey. 2. Taxying out at Bromma Airport, Stockholm, to fly over the border to Oslo. 3. Airline officials and members of the Norwegianpress sample the Viking in the air. 4. Capt. J. Sum- mers (Vickers Chief Test Pilot) explaining points ofthe Viking to Mr. J. K. Christie, right, Chief Engineer and Technical Director of Norwegian Air Lines. 5. On the tarmac at Copenhagen Airport. 6.The Viking flying over Copenhagen with one air- screw feathered lends point to the illustrationwhich appears on our front-cover. As we go to press the news comes from the other side of theworld of the safe arrival of the first of 20 Vikings ordered by the Argentine Government.
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