Originally Posted by
Jungmeister
Quite right Leaddie. Of course in the little old backwater of Adelaide we did not have any International flights to speak of in the very early days. Certainly no scheduled flights until Singapore and British Airways ("The Speedbird") came along. There was only one occasional Monarch (Brittania) that imported British Migrants. We even had a special Local Instruction headed for " International Flights (eg Monarch)"
Jungmeister,
The guys from British Eagle would be disappointed that they have been forgotten, particularly as the offspring of the founder of British Eagle, Harold Bamberg, have lived in SA for quite some years. Eagle had long term British defense and other contracts, and were regulars at "appropriate" airfields in SA.
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