SOUTH AMERICA LINE
ALL-BRITISH SERVICE
(9 am .) LONDON, Oct. 25. Former Pathfinder pilots will fly converted Lancaster bombers, Lancastrians and Tudors on the new air route between Britain and South America which British South American Airways Limited plans to develop within a month after the Government’s statement on its civil aviation policy on November 1. The new service will proceed from Hurn near Bournemouth, via Lisbon, Bathurst, Natal (Brazil), and Montevideo to Santiago. The company chairman, Mr. J. W. Booth, stated that . five steamship companies were backing the organisation, which was interested only in developing an air route to South America. . The general manager. Air ViceMarshal Bennett, emphasised that the organisation was entirely unsubsidised and all-British. The cruising speed of the planes would do was 235 miles an hour and the flying time 35 hours.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21854, 26 October 1945, Page 3
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