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408 FLIGHT, 30 March 1961 Speedbird Anniversary In the same month Lancastrians, carrying only six passengers in sleeping berths, began the then fastest, longair service in the world—the 63-hour, 13,000-mile Kangaroo service between Hum and Sydney. On May 2b the service moved to London Airport. This Lancastrian is seen making the first BO AC departure from Head. In November 1945, 21-passenger Yorksinaugurated the Springhok service to Johannesburg, in conjunction with SouthAfrican Airways. At Khartoum this Sudanese cleaner seems particularly pleased BOAC's first post-war equipment for thenew, commercial "Battle of the Atlantic" were five Constellation 049s, delivered in themiddle of 1946. The service from London to New York was inaugurated on July 1.On the Constellation flight deck, discussing the new aircraft, are Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown and Capt O. P. Jones, Atlantic veterans both At the end of the war, BO AC began to build its bigreputation for flying animals. A very important arrival at Poole in May 1946 was this giant panda . . . . another was the chairman, ViscounKnollys, who was returning from a 35,L tour of the routes in a Hythe flying boat If its operating equipmentleft much to be desired in the immediate post-war years, sodid the corporation s ground facilities. This wasthe airline's transport office at London Airport inJuly 1946 Lancastrians and Yorks bore the brunt of theCommonwealth services at that time, but some were operated by Haltons. converted Halifax bombers.Here a Halton is seen flying past the Grand Hotel at Khartoum, a city of major importance on theCommonwealth routes for many years In 1947 the then Princess Elizabeth christenedBOAC's first Tudor 1 "Elizabeth of England" at London Airport. It was to be the flagship of the fleetand the Tudor I and 2 were intended as the mainsprings of BOAC's Atlantic and Commonwealth fleets; apromise which was unfulfilled—the first of several post-war equipment shortcomings The first wholly post-war 1 mainly on African routes a
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