"Evita" Race Event Pilot Registration

[Vicious]

Vicious Air Adventures is announcing its creation and entrance to the Buenos Aires race. Based in beautiful San Diego, Vicious Air Adventures was founded to cater to those who are bored with the direction modern day air travel is headed. Flying in complete safety and luxury may be fine for the social elite, but many travelers like to live on the edge, taking risks and challenges, and that’s what we offer. Every seat has a five point harness for those occasional aerobatic maneuvers that our pilots like to perform and is also equipped with a parachute which likely be needed. Flying the unreliable, but stylish Avro Tudor IV, we’ll usually get you there, but often not. Dead stick landings are not uncommon as are landings in cow fields or on highways.

Flight prep is underway as the financing has just been secured and the Tudor IV has just been purchased from another airline at a bargain price, due to its recent crash landing. Our route will start in North America but we haven’t decided to take the East or West route.

Piloted by famous WWII triple ace Tom “Vicious” Veloskey, also the owner, it’s guaranteed to be an adventure.

[MM]

Welcome, Tom and Gunter. Glad to have you all in on the adventure.

[MM]

Just got a telegram from Orvis Nelson in Oakland. He's sending an entry from Transocean Air Lines. To head up the operation, he's nominated one of his experienced pilots who has flown all over South America as well as around the world. This fellow, besides flying for TAL, fancies himself a writer...perhaps you have read Island in the Sky. Nelson assures us that we can safely ignore this fact: Ernie Gann is just a wonderful guy and a true professional pilot.

For First Officer, the Transocean entry is going to pick from a rotation of equally grizzled veterans—provided one is available. At each stop, Gann will be responsible for scouring the usual watering holes to find a suitable pilot. Having just finished a job for AOA, he should be ready for this one.

This is a whimsical entry. It's here for pilots who want to take a flight or two without worrying about being too competitive. And, we do need a DC-4 for Willy's B307 to beat! So please feel free to join in on the fun.

Airline: Transocean Air Lines
Headquarters: Oakland, California
Pilot: Gann's Flying Circus (Various)
Aircraft: DC-4 (C-54A) N88784

See Orvis Nelson, Ernie Gann, and N88784 below.

[salt_air]

Well Mike,

Now that you mention it, I had noticed a DC-4 just the other day,,,,,one I hadn't seen before.

Wonder if this could be the same outfit as the one you describe?

Hmmmmm....

[MM]

Austin,

That looks like the fanciful drawings that the backroom marketing gals are sketching--for the newfangled 1950s "look". (Pastels are tipped to be "the thing".) Where did you get those secret documents?

Below are a couple of Kodachromes of Transocean's currently fashionable 1940s livery.

If you like, please join in on the Transocean "Flying Circus".

Mike

[salt_air]

Mike,

Well,,,,for one thing I've always thoroughly enjoyed any of the backroom sessions with the maketing gals,,,, that I can remember.

I actually wasn't supposed to post those pictures,,,,,,,gee, I hope I sent the right pictures home last night with the "Wish you were here" card I sent .



The offer join in with the "Flying Circus" sounds good to me (Thank You).

I wonder which route the good folks in the "Head Shed" at Transocean will want to explore?

[Haitun]

FAMA (Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina), which was formed in 1946 as a merger of ALFA (Aviación Litoral Federal Argentino) and LADE (Líneas Aéreas del Estado) was the first airline to provide transcontinental flight to Argentina. The company made an infamous racer Haitun their captain, to cut expenses.

Will make a late start on Monday - too much trans-eurasian IRL hopping lately - not all river ships in Russia has wi-fi=(. Still testing aircraft and routes.

[arrvoo]

The flight from Salgado Filho International in Porto Alegre to Montevideo's went from uneventful to way too exciting right on landing. No2 engine caught fire just as soon as we'd come to a full stop. Fortunately a smooth evacuation and a rapid deployment of the fire suppression system minimised the damge and everone got off safely.
Engineering say they think repairs shouldn't take too long providing they have the parts in stock. Fingers crossed!

[srgalahad]

Someone want to tell the Irishmen that replacing the water-methanol with Jamieson's does not increase performance and has other consequences? Or should we wait until the trip home?

[srgalahad]

Canadian Pacific Airlines (President Grant McConachie) wishes to express it's regret over being effectively ruled out of the current Argentine Challenge.

The Canadian government's refusal to allow CPAL to provide regular, frequent service across Canada (to protect the interests of the state-owned Trans Canada Air Lines) makes introduction of service from Montreal & Toronto currently unfeasible. We have, however anticipated the needs of our South American friends by planning service from Vancouver, B.C. via Mexico City & Lima Peru to Buenos Aires to commence in the upcoming months. To assess the viability of connecting service to other major cities through current CPAL routes as well as allied carriers, we will be demonstrating our ability to serve the Latin Americas during a proving flight along the following route:


Vancouver(CYVR) - Seattle (KBFI) - San Francisco (KSFO) - Los Angeles/Santa Monica (KSMO) - El Paso (KELP) - Mexico City (MMMX) - Acapulco (MMAA) - San Salvador (MSLP) - Panama City (MPMG) - Guayaquil (SEGU) - Lima (SPLP) - La Paz (SLLP) - Santiago (SCTI) - Buenos Aires (SAEZ)
Length 7394 nm.

Route Notes:
KBFI - Seattle is a "TCAL" city but is currently under-served
KSFO - A CPAL destination/connection
KSMO - A natural continuance of the San Francisco service and home of Douglas Aircraft
KELP - connections from Chicago, Dallas/ Ft. Worth and serving the large Alomogordo, NM facility
MMMX - Connecting service via Montreal/Toronto on our anticipated Lisbon (Portugal) route
MMAA - Acapulco, MX Significant interest from wealthy travellers to this new Gem of The Pacific

Our current plan is to offer DIRECT Vancouver - Mexico City - Lima - Buenos Aires flights (well within the range of our current C-4 aircraft), connecting to our extensive Canadian and Pacific routes. Looking to the future we are beginning negotiations to be the first Western Hemisphere operator of the upcoming DeHavilland COMET jetliner when it enters service a couple of years hence. We are also negotiating with a new Pacific carrier (McHale's Airlines) to provide a link to our Vancouver - Hawaii - Fiji - Sydney and Vancouver - Tokyo - Shanghai- Hong Kong routes to enable passengers to conduct travel and business around the entire Pacific Ocean with ease.

We feel that this service will efficiently serve the needs of Latin America and around the Pacific Rim in the years to come.