Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta 1933 at Mount Isa Airport

[winsor68]

Imperial Airways ordered eight aircraft which had all been delivered by 1933. The first service was flown from Croydon Airport to Brussels and then Cologne on 26 September 1932. The prototype G-ABPI left Croydon Airport on 5 January 1933 on a proving flight to Cape Town, South Africa. Three other aircraft joined it in South Africa to fly the service between Cape Town and Kisumu, although they proved to be too small for the traffic. On 1 July 1933, an Atalanta flew the first direct air mail service between London and Karachi. Two Indian-registered and two British-registered aircraft operated a Karachi-Calcutta service with was later extended to Rangoon and Singapore.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth_Atalanta

 

On 29 May 1933, G-ABTL flew through to Melbourne, Australia (arriving on 30 June) on a route survey flight. This is a photo from my fathers collection. I don't know who took it.

 

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[Garfly]

A new film about the AW 15 Atalanta from 'Rex's Hangar':

 

 

 

 

[planedriver]

Interesting for me, for one.

Thanks for posting.

I used to live very Close to Croydon Aerodrome but being an old fart remember the HP42's being there, but not the Atlanta, i'm not quite that old.

Edited November 15 by planedriver

[IBob]

It almost has a DC3 front end..........