Steve.........
Great to hear more details of your Solent flight. Wonder why the service did not operate to Mombasa Port Reitz. I am sure flying boat operations were carried our there. I remember going to the Port Reitz Hotel but that was after the flyboat operations had ceased. Port Reitz is not too far from present day Mombasa Airport.
I have similar memories of my first flight. Airwork Viking, again of course, unpressurised.
rog747.........
Eastleigh was in use prior to Embakasi opening in April 58. It was constructed during the war as RAF Eastleigh. A "civil side" opened after the war and all international traffic transitted through here, BOAC, Airwork, SAS, Sabena, Air India, SAA and a good many more.
I remember departing from there in a BOAC Brit 102 in July 57: my first flight in a four engined turbo prop. Also remember the Brit prototype landing there for the first time when on tropical trials, around 54/55.
Planemike
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