Motion History: The Air Ferry - Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair
Documentary (2020)
Production:
Ruairidh Mac Veigh (Editor)
Ruairidh Mac Veigh (Writter)
Ruairidh Mac Veigh (Narrator)
Documentary on the Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair a car-carrying conversion for the Douglas DC-4, built to provide improved air ferry services between England, Ireland and Continental Europe.
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Motion History
Entrepreneur Freddie Laker's origin
Handley Page H.P.59 Halifax B.II Series IA
Escorted by a Supermarine Spitfire.
With more than 6000 aircraft produced, the Halifax would be a source for civilian use after WWII.
Handley Page H.P.70 Halifax C.VIII
Cargo and passenger version used as civil transport after WWII, especially in the Berlin Airlift 1949.
Registration G-AIAP, c/n 1354. Built for the RAF as PP281. Sold to B.O.A.C in September 1946. Sold to Airtech Ltd in October 1948. Sold to Eagle Aviation Ltd in February 1949. Destroyed in a crash on takeoff from Calcutta Dum Dum Airport (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport nowadays (CCU/VECC)) the 25th November 1950.
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