B.O.A.C. GOES OVER THE NORTH POLE.—A British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707 airliner flying over cloud-topped icy peaks of the Alaskan mountains near Anchorage when the new non-stop B.O.A.C. service from London to Tokyo and Osaka was started on May 5. This is the first polar air route to be flown by a British airline. The flight time over the North Pole route is 17 1/2 hours, eight hours less than the traditional route through India and the Far East.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31985, 12 May 1969, Page 26
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80B.O.A.C. GOES OVER THE NORTH POLE.—A British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707 airliner flying over cloud-topped icy peaks of the Alaskan mountains near Anchorage when the new non-stop B.O.A.C. service from London to Tokyo and Osaka was started on May 5. This is the first polar air route to be flown by a British airline. The flight time over the North Pole route is 17 1/2 hours, eight hours less than the traditional route through India and the Far East. Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31985, 12 May 1969, Page 26
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