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Zachbt wrote:Was it not Lufthansa with a focke-wulf fw 200 'condor' in 1938 from Berlin to New York?
Well that was the first land based transatlantic.
PatrickZ80 wrote:Zachbt wrote:Was it not Lufthansa with a focke-wulf fw 200 'condor' in 1938 from Berlin to New York?
Well that was the first land based transatlantic.
Indeed it was, and it was revolutionary in those days. Until then all flights across the ocean were done on floatplanes that could land at the sea to refuel. This aircraft could make the whole trip (about 24 hours) without refueling.
A few years later the first American built land aircraft also made it across the ocean, the Boeing 377 and the Douglas DC-4. But the Germans were the first.
PatrickZ80 wrote:Zachbt wrote:Was it not Lufthansa with a focke-wulf fw 200 'condor' in 1938 from Berlin to New York?
Well that was the first land based transatlantic.
Indeed it was, and it was revolutionary in those days. Until then all flights across the ocean were done on floatplanes that could land at the sea to refuel. This aircraft could make the whole trip (about 24 hours) without refueling.
Viscount724 wrote:PatrickZ80 wrote:Zachbt wrote:Was it not Lufthansa with a focke-wulf fw 200 'condor' in 1938 from Berlin to New York?
Well that was the first land based transatlantic.
Indeed it was, and it was revolutionary in those days. Until then all flights across the ocean were done on floatplanes that could land at the sea to refuel. This aircraft could make the whole trip (about 24 hours) without refueling.
A few years later the first American built land aircraft also made it across the ocean, the Boeing 377 and the Douglas DC-4. But the Germans were the first.
If memory correct, the flight to NYC with the Condor was a one-off demonstration flight, not scheduled service. I pretty sure the scheduled landplane service on transatlantic routes was by AA's transatlantic subsidiary American Overseas Airlines (AOA) in October 1945 using the DC-4.
timz wrote:Davies says it was earlier than that.
MalevTU134 wrote:Who's Davies?
timz wrote:Davies says LATI flew weekly SM83s Rome to Rio starting in December 1939. He says they flew Sal to Natal-- that's 2800+ km.