February 20, 20224 yr The origin and roots of all major airlines are always fascinating.... almost all major airlines of today had started small...usually by another name...and usually dedicated to transport mail rather than pax...e.g., in U.S. in the days before passenger service, contracts for mail transportation sustained fledgling (and newborn) U.S. airlines...Also, due to lack of reliable airplanes and land-based airport infrastructure, the norm then was to use floatplanes that could follow and land on water bodies...And for long-haul, seaplanes became the mode of transport... Today, I caught sight of a Tasman Empire Airways Ltd (TEAL) Short Sandringham, in the library uploads. I then recalled from one of my Air New Zealand posts, TEAL to be the predecessor of Air New Zealand. Essentially, Air New Zealand originated in 1940 as Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL), a company primarily engaged in mail-transport, across the Tasman Sea, between New Zealand and Australia. In 1965, TEAL, was renamed Air New Zealand. The original TEAL, just 4 days after its establishment, on April 30, 1940, inaugurated air-service, across the Tasman Sea. This sea is (locally) referred to as the "ditch" (similar to the North Atlantic being called the "Pond"). The Tasman Sea can pose treacherous (water and air) conditions due to the colliding currents from the Pacific Ocean and the Southern Oceans, all meeting at the Tasman Sea. The S.25 Sandringham IV "Tasman Class" flying boats, as seen in this post, were meant to replace the S.30 Empire Class flying boats for Tasman Sea crossings, but, only after 2-3 years, they were also deemed unsuitable for the harsh challenges of the Tasman Sea and were withdrawn. Anyway, please find below, a set of evocative images of the past and present, mixed in, where you see a (Tasman) S.25 Sandringham (in TEAL-NZ marking) lifting off the nearby Waitematā Harbour (of Auckland City) and heading west for the trans-Tasman voyage of 1,300 miles...to Sydney...You will also, see, below, an Air New Zealand Boeing 737 lifting off Rwy 23L of Auckland (NZAA). Of course, worlds apart from the navigation of the S.25, the B737's advanced FMC is pre-programmed, by yours truly...🙂...for automated (and effortless) flight across the Tasman Sea, all the way to Sydney... (the uploaded flightplan is identical to that shown on the MAP - the 5th screenshot) ... The series concludes with a few pictures of the B737 just been enabled for LNAV/VNAV navigation, and banking right (westward) from the original Rwy 23L heading, about to tackle the Tasman Sea (air) passage...please note a glimpse of Auckland Downtown, seen on the starboard side of the a/c in one of the shots, below... BTW, I really like the -700, it being the primary (first) variant of the so-called (737) Next-Generation (737NG) series. I do recall several flights, from years ago, in (launch customer) Southwest's B737-700s (out of Midway Airport). For this post, I looked for a 737-700 repaint, with winglets, and did find one in the local library, in the color of Air New Zealand... (as shown below) ... Hope you enjoy these pictures...!! [iFly(B737-700), Orbx (NZ)]
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