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The trip was not non-stop, but went all over Europe, then, I believe
to the Azores, then the Bahamas (or Bermuda? I'd have to check my
archive) before coming to land in Washington.
Tim Redman
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 19:25:00 +0100 Alexander Schmitz
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Martin -
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> no USAF officer, but a West Berlin child of the great Berlin Airlift of 1948-49
> und thus a life long aviation & US lover:
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> a C54 Skymaster wdn't have had the necessary range. I'm pretty sure that at that
> time there were only one or two types of aircraft really capable of doing the
> atlantic non-stop, early versions of the Lockheed Conny (L149) or much more
> likely the Boeing B337 ("Stratocruiser" I think that ship's name was. Somehow
> THAT sounds familiar to me in EP context. Maybe that either Cornell or Carpenter
> have details about it in their books or it was in the EP film "American Odyssey"
> where Mary tells about how enormously excited EP was on this his very first
> flight. I cd check but have no time right now. Maybe you can or let me know so I
> wd go at it in a couple of days
>
> BTW, I'd enjoy to talk aviation with you or yr son.
>
> alex
Tim Redman
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University of Texas at Dallas
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