Vector4fun
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I have an old book of aviaton photos I picked up somewhere. It's called "Flight, A Pictorial History from the Wright Brothers to Supersonic" by John W.R. Taylor. Very Eurocentric, but lots of unusual photos. I was thumbing through it last night in bed.
Anyway, photo 339 is of a pusher biplane amphib from 1921 with the following caption:
"Direct services between city centres, now possible only with helicopters, were pioneered in 1921 by a Vickers Viking III amphibian. Carrying Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes, Controller General of Civil Aviation, it flew from the Seine, near the center of Paris, to the Thames, near the Houses of Parliment, in two hours. Same journey by normal airline service today takes over four hours."
Progress is such a wonderful thing. I laughed out loud and woke my wife up...
Anyway, photo 339 is of a pusher biplane amphib from 1921 with the following caption:
"Direct services between city centres, now possible only with helicopters, were pioneered in 1921 by a Vickers Viking III amphibian. Carrying Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes, Controller General of Civil Aviation, it flew from the Seine, near the center of Paris, to the Thames, near the Houses of Parliment, in two hours. Same journey by normal airline service today takes over four hours."
Progress is such a wonderful thing. I laughed out loud and woke my wife up...