A view of the Imperial Airways Africa service from the ground
G-AETW Calpurnia at Lindi, Tanganyika
Another year has more or less passed, and it’s been just as difficult as when I last wrote. I suppose better things are on the horizon, and hopefully those plans we’re all making for the late summer and autumn won’t
It’s been a year since I last had anything to say, and I haven’t really got anything to add. It’s been such a difficult year for everyone so far this year I’m just glad you’re here to read this note!
Although the website has been working just fine recently, it may just go awol while I’m carrying out a major upgrade. Fasten your seat belts and hold on tight.
We’ve had a bit of a hiccup with the web page recently. If you came straight to the news pages you were fine, but if you arrived on the home page, you got redirected to an advertising page, or worse,
Corsair, G-ADVB, became infamous for crashing not once, but twice, in Equatorial Africa. Geoffrey was in Juba, in the middle of things, when the accident happened. Then after the flying boat was salvaged from its watery berth on the edge
Running through ideas for more voice recordings, I thought the description of the acceptance testing would be of interest. The first three Empire Flying Boats Only one flying boat had been through the acceptance testing and flown – Canopus ADHL,