1939 Imperial Airways "Reserve" route.

[bhk]

Presented for your enjoyment by CptRoyce and yours truly and just uploaded to both Avsim and Flightsim.
Look for ia_ar_39.zip

In June 1939 a survey was carried out for a route between Australia and Great Britain in the event of war cutting the existing path through the Middle and Far East. Cpt. P.G.Taylor proposed a path across the Indian Ocean to Mombasa via Cocos Island, Diego Garcia and the Seychelles.
On June 4th. the survey flight departed Port Hedland aboard the PBY-1 "Guba".

In a similar fashion, Imperial Airways planned a "Reserve" route from Britain to Mombasa via Lisbon, the Canaries, Bathurst (West Africa) and Lagos. It is not known if this route was used in full or in part.

This package includes two flights covering the entire route, one for the Imperial Airways section and the other for the "Guba" survey flight. Please read the enclosed DOC file for full information.

Regards,
Bruce

[robert4368]

Sound like an interesting flight Bruce, Im going to have to check this out.

[lifejogger]

Where can a person get a good PBY with a good VC?

[bhk]

Jogger,
Freeware, I'm not sure if there is one. Mike Stone's PBY is very nice but it comes with a generic type of 2D cockpit.
I'm quite pleased with the Alphasim offering.

Bruce

[lifejogger]

Thanks Bruce. I'll check out Alphasim.


Jogger

[bhk]

For some unknown reason, although this was uploaded quite successfully to Avsim within 10 minutes of my uploading it to Flightsim, it hasn't appeared on the former site.

So if anyone wants it, it is only available at this time from Flightsim.

Bruce.