Aircraft flown by Geoffrey Higges in Trans Australia Airlines and Swissair
1958 to 1963
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Douglas DC3.
Ansett, and Trans Australia Airlines (now Qantas) based in Adelaide, South Australia. Also a lot of time was spent recording data on special mapping flights in the vast interior bush on the DC3 VH-DAS..
The Douglas DC6B was used by
Swissair on medium and long distance Middle and Far East flights. It
really struggled taking off from Karachi in the heat with a big fuel
load.
It was very satisfying to get
back to jets with the Sud Est Caravelle.