The Beeb has posted a set of pictures about airline travel with some quite interesting ones including a flying boat at Lagos, interesting because it’s a Boeing 314 Clipper, still in wartime livery, not a type one normally associates with BOAC. I guess they were used because the more usual ones, Solents and Sandringhams didn’t have enough range to get to Nigeria across the Sahara and had to stop at Gibraltar, Freetown and Accra.
Whilst I revere the Sunderland (from which the Sandringham sprang) I have always had a soft spot for the Clipper and it's 3,500 mile range.
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