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Brian Van de Water

Brian Van de Water writes for Australian aviation magazines.

The airline would use the Avro Lancastrian both to ferry passengers (as in this 1945 scene) and to carry engines, using a specially designed pod slung underneath the fuselage.

The Impossible Flight

London to Sydney: 12,000 miles that started an airline.

August 2016

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