FLIGHT ROUND WORLD
PLANE TO TAKE NORTHWEST PASSAGE (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, May 21, Tbe first commercial flight across lhe North-west Passage is to start from Oslo on Saturday, states the aeronauU s a L c °r rcs ?? n d e pt of “The Times.” Scandinavian Airlines System DC6B airliner Hjalmar Viking i s lb take 40 members of a relief staff to the Norwegian field hospital in Korea, and the route will be from Oslo to Thule m Greenland, across .the Arctic regions to Anchorage in Alaska, thence to Shemya in the Aleutians, and so to Tokyo.
“This journey of 6683 nautical miles Is expected to be completed in a flying time of about 33 hours. “After delivering its passengers the aircraft will complete its round-the-world flight back to Stockholm followTni con ventional route from Tokyo through Okinawa, Bangkok, Rangoon, Karachi, Cairo, Rome, Geneva, Frankfurt, and Copenhagen. ? ven all °wmg for a night stop of 16 hours at Anchorage on the outward trip and a halt of 43 hours at Tokyo is . scheduled to be back in Stockholm In six days and a half.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27047, 23 May 1953, Page 2
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