Until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, this was the world's longest-distance scheduled service by airplane. [11] . By 1926, it was offering flights to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Paris, London, Bremen, Copenhagen, and Malmö, using primarily Fokker F.II and Fokker F.III aircraft. [14] In 1930, KLM carried 15,143 passengers.

Missions over occupied Europe with bombers of the US 8th Air Force would be a tougher test of this aeronautical correspondent’s mettle. But note the date on which The Aeroplane carried its technical editor’s Dutch dispatch: 10 May 1940.

BOAC Flight 777A was a KLM flight scheduled as a British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline flight from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal to Whitchurch Airport near Bristol, England.

Oct 20, 2018 · IT was 70 years ago today that a Lockheed Constellation aircraft owned by Dutch airline KLM ploughed into a field near Prestwick Airport, killing all 40 people on board. It was Scotland’s worst air disaster to that point and remained the worst until the Lockerbie bombing of December, 1988.

Jun 1, 2024 · It was the first of ten DC-3s ordered by KLM, and it regularly flew a London–Amsterdam–Berlin schedule. KLM’s DC-3s were configured with a three-seat flight deck. A third seat was placed behind the first pilot, for use by a radio operator/navigator. A chart table was behind the second pilot’s seat.

A chronicle of KLM Dutch Royal Airlines founder Albert Plesman and pioneering aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker's symbiotic but tempestuous bond as they struggle to establish the interwar Netherlands' role in global civil aviation.

Jun 13, 2019 · KLM's Caribbean Decade : The Story of the Operations of Royal Dutch Airlines in the West Indies since December 1934 by Bouman, Leonard F.

Jun 1, 2024 · It was the first of ten DC-3s ordered by KLM, and it regularly flew a London–Amsterdam–Berlin schedule. KLM’s DC-3s were configured with a three-seat flight deck. A third seat was placed behind the first pilot, for use by a radio operator/navigator. A chart table was behind the second pilot’s seat.

Apart from BOAC, this left only two of the pre-war European airlines still operating: the Swedish carrier ABA, and the Royal Dutch Airline, KLM. That the latter should still be around in the European skies was extraordinary.

AMSTERDAM – Op 5 mei 2005 viert Nederland dat het zestig jaar geleden werd bevrijd door de geallieerden. Luchtvaartnieuws blikt terug op een stuk geschiedenis die de nodige impact had op de nationale luchtvaartwereld.