Originally Posted by
phj1308
And all this because of a few old plane nuts too!
PHJ, welcome to PPRuNe. Sorry to be one of those "old plane nuts"
, but a few comments and updates, which is sort of what we do here.
In about 1954 I flew with my mother to Accra on a Hunting Clan Viking. It took about two days and the stop-over was Tangiers. Can't remember there being any other stop-over, but it was a journey of lots of little hops round the west coast of Africa.
Here's the timetable for the route by Viking, in 1957; three very full days to get to Accra, overnighting at Tangier and Bathurst. Do you remember those hotels shown ?
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttima...7/hcaw57-2.jpg
Favourite was the Air Liban DC 7C; I think I just liked the 'Christmas tree' on the tail.
Air Liban never had DC-7Cs, lucky them; they did have DC6s (so they were spared the DC7s tempramental engines); here's their West African timetable from 1961, for example, showing they operated a circular route from Beirut through Casablanca and right round to Lagos, then back direct, passing through Accra anticlockwise on Friday evening and clockwise on Sunday morning.
http://www.timetableimages.com/ttima...n61/ln61-3.jpg