WHBM: Thank you very much for your help. I'm ecstatic!
The timetable is almost enough to calculate the course, if I'm not mistaken, 1648 NM Bissau-Lisbon at 200-250knots (my guess for the cruise speed TAP would make in the 1049H) give or take it's the 8h 40 minutes in the timetable. It is odd, anyway, I never tought it would be such a straight course; I tought TAP would avoid flying over at least some African countries (political issues in the 60's).
My dad does not remember if it was over "sea" or "land". I'm trying to recreate his first flight (he was doing his military tour in Guiné and that was his first leave - to see your's truly for the first time: I was born 3 month after his departure to war in Africa
Anyway, your help was priceless: I think to do better it would have to be someone from a TAP crew at the time to tell me the exact course. (too much to expect, maybe)
Again, thank you very much!
