How Do Airlines Deliver Airplanes Lengthy Distances?
I believe Inter-Island Airways (now Hawaiian Airlines) original Sikorsky seaplanes were disassembled and shipped to Hawaii, however that may have been within the late 1920s. Hawaiian did a DC-3 formation delivery flight from California to Honolulu to help establish the safety of using a plane that couldn’t land within the water for inter-island travel. An evaluation of 50 city-pairs representing a geographic sample of brief- and lengthy-haul markets, in addition to journey in and between…
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