ON April 7, a three-engined Wibault monoplane took-off from Le Bourget, the Paris airport, for Toulouse, with a consignment of mail for South America. This flight marked the inauguration of a new all air-mail service to South America, which will operate twice a month in each direction. From Toulouse the mail was carried to Casablanca in a Bréguet 393, a new three-engined “sesqui-plane” for commercial service. From Casablanca the mail was carried to Dakar, the jumping-off point for trans-Atlantic services in the Senegal, in a three-engined long-range version of the Wibault low wing monoplane. At Dakar the consignment of mail was loaded into the hold of the Blériot 5190 “Santos Dumont,” flying boat, which took-off for Natal in South America. In exactly 43 hours and 52 minutes from the take-off at Paris, the mail was landed at Natal, whence it was further transported by air to South American cities reached by Air France.
An Ocean-Going Commercial Boat
The Latécoère 521 Flying Boat Compared with Other Similar French and American Machines
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology ; 7 , 5 ; 109-112
1935-05-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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