June 16, 20214 yr Looking for online material on aircraft & airlines that flew Europe to Rio, roughly between 1900 & 1970. I think there was one at some stage that went from Paris to Casablanca, Casablanca to Rio. Possibly served by Flying Boats? Searching so far tends to throw up today's flights.😀 Thanks T45 Edited June 16, 20214 yr by Treetops45
June 17, 20214 yr Well, if you're talking about the 1930s-1940s, then flying boats wouldn't have had the range for a Casablanca to Rio flight. Most likely they flew to the United States and then from there one would get a flight down to South America. Dave Simulator: P3Dv6.1 System Specs: Intel i7 13700K CPU, MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Motherboard, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Video Card, 3x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 SSDs, Windows 11 Home OS My website for P3D stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/thep3dfiles/home
June 17, 20214 yr It's a lot to go through but www.timetableimages.com has loads of info on that time period. Good luck Ian
June 17, 20214 yr If it's specifically Air France routes for Paris - Rio you're looking for: This is from 1937 showing a number of stopovers along the African coast And this one from 1956 (with the Super Constellation and Vickers Viscount) These all appear to use Dakar in Senegal as the springboard for the last leg across the South Atlantic with the older routes landing in Natal before continuing on to Rio. Cheers Mallard Edited June 17, 20214 yr by Mallard
June 17, 20214 yr In 1933 Lufthansa startet flights across the South Atlantic via Bathurst (today: Banjul, Gambia) to Natal (Brazil) with Dornier Wal Flying Boats. The distance was 3040 km. Flight time going west was 14 hours, going east 12,5 hours. Sometimes the start was supported by catapult on the deck of the vessel "Westfalen". This info with many more details are from the book "Flugbuch Atlantik"; German language. Good luck with your research. Rüdiger Ruediger von Oehsen Win11Pro - i9 10900KF - RTX3090
June 17, 20214 yr The pre-WW II Luft Hansa (as it was back then) flights were almost exclusively an air mail service... They also used airships on that route. Lots about that on https://flughafenbb.com/1919-1945/sudamerika/ Which is mainly in German, but has quite a number of illustrations with remarks in English. Cheers Mallard
June 18, 20214 yr Moderator Air France launched its Concorde service to Rio de Janeiro via Dakar in January 1976. Details here. I appreciate it’s outside your dates but useful nevertheless perhaps. https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-first-scheduled-services Ray (Cheshire, England). System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant. Cheadle Hulme Weather website.
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