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1952
1952 - 0715.PDF
FLIGHT, 21 March 1952 325 Proving Flights Pave the Way for Regular Operation on B.E.A." s Continental Routes Elizabethan Shows the Flag r ASERIES of proving and demonstration flights is at present being made by British European Airways' Elizabethan class de Havilland-Airspeed Ambassador aircraft in preparation for the introduction of this type on a number of the Corporation's routes. These photographs were taken on the recent flight by R.M.A. William Shakespeare to Geneva, Sion, Milan and Nice. The two upper views show the Matterhorn, photographed on the flight from Geneva to Sion, and the aircraft taking-off on a demonstration flight at Nice. The centre and lower photographs were taken at Geneva's Cointrin Airport and in two of them the Elizabethan can be seen wearing the flags of Switzerland and of B.E.A. Elizabethans are at present working certain of the London-Paris services and B.E.A. will also introduce them on the following routes : London-Nice (night excursion services from May ist and daily morning flights from August ist); London-Milan via Geneva (daily in under four hours); London-Rome (from the end of June); London-Copenhagen-Stockholm (from July); and London-Zurich-Vienna. A proving flight, with the Elizabethan G-ALZR, R.M.A. Sir Walter Raleigh, was made over the London-Zurich-Vienna routt on March Hth-I2th.
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