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Historic flight plans
A curated collection of route notebooks for reliving major aviation journeys in Flight Simulator: context, preparation, waypoints, interactive maps and immersion tips.
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Five Roman Roads, five journeys through ancient Europe
Following ancient roads from the sky The Roman Empire built about 85,000 kilometers of paved roads. Many modern routes still follow those alignments, with a familiar...
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Pacific Alaska Airways, Pan American’s Alaska route
A Pan Am route through fjords, Yukon and western Alaska Pacific Alaska Airways was founded in 1932 as a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways, which absorbed it in...
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Allied Airways, crossing the North Sea to Stavanger
Eric Leslie Gandar Dower’s North Sea dream Allied Airways is tied to the determination of Eric Leslie Gandar Dower, a lover of Norway who wanted a scheduled service...
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Australian Aerial Services, southeastern Australia by trimotor
A pioneering, punctual and surprisingly reliable network Australian Aerial Services appears in 1930 timetables with impressive figures: more than one million nautical...
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Cruzeiro do Sul, the Southern Cross across Brazil
A vast Brazilian DC-3 network Cruzeiro do Sul was a Brazilian airline founded in 1927. Its 1950 network shows remarkable reach: coastline, south, Amazon region,...
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OK Air, island-hopping in Hawaii
A small, simple and very enjoyable Hawaiian network OK Air remains poorly documented, but its 1979 timetable is enough to create a pleasant Hawaiian flight plan. The...
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Fiji Airways, from Fiji into the South Pacific
Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Samoa The airline began in 1947 as Katafaga Estates Limited under Harold Charles Gatty. It became Fiji...
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The Patrouille de France in the USA, 2017 North American tour
A modern tour with the scale of a grand raid In 2017, for the centenary of the United States entering the First World War, the Patrouille de France completed a major...
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Middle East Airways, the Viscount between Europe, the Middle East and India
Lebanon at the center of an international network Middle East Airways was founded in 1945. The Lebanese airline first developed a Middle Eastern network, then expanded...
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Bristol Brabazon, the long-haul routes that might have been
Imagining the career of a British giant The Bristol Brabazon began as a wartime project in 1943 and was cancelled in 1953. It remains a fascinating symbol: huge,...
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Japan Air Transport, Japan’s pre-war air network
Civil aviation and Japanese expansion Japan Air Transport was created in 1928 through a state-backed merger, following the pattern of national airlines of the period....
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Isthmian Airways, a sightseeing flight over the Panama Canal
Thirty minutes over a legendary engineering work Isthmian Airways offered sightseeing flights over the Panama Canal between 1929 and 1936. The idea is simple and...
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Russia: around Lake Baikal, Siberia’s inland sea
A great circle around the world’s largest freshwater reserve Lake Baikal is 636 km long, up to 79 km wide and reaches 1,642 m deep. In the simulator, the navigation...
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Air Ferries, seaplanes across San Francisco Bay
The shortest and most scenic air ferry From 1930, Air Ferries Ltd operated amphibious seaplane links between San Francisco, Oakland and Vallejo. The concept feels...
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Aigle Azur, from France to North Africa and beyond
A post-war French airline Aigle Azur was founded in 1946 by Sylvain Floirat. After the war, the airline developed a network toward North Africa, Corsica, Switzerland,...
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Trans Mar de Cortés, the Route of the Missionaries
Baja California, the Sea of Cortés and missionary history Trans Mar de Cortés is poorly documented, but the name “Route of the Missionaries” immediately sets the tone....
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The Southern Cross Odyssey, an extended round-the-world Fokker journey
A slow, demanding and beautiful round-the-world flight This extended version adapts the Learjet 45 circumnavigation concept to the 1928 Fokker “Southern Cross”. The...
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Iran Air, flying around Iran by twin aircraft
From private investors to the national Homa Iran Air traces its roots to Iranian Airways, founded in 1944 by private investors, and Persian Air Service in 1954. After...
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From Bus to Plane
Martz Air Lines, from bus to plane Frank Martz began by carrying Pennsylvania miners by car and then bus. In the 1920s, his innovative spirit led him toward aviation...
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Flying around the Free World
MATS, the air map of the free world In 1948, the American Military Air Transport Service presented a global network far beyond simple military logistics. It connected...
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Around the World with Pan Am
Pan American, the intercontinental omnibus In 1947, Pan American World Airways offered Round the World Services that would have been hard to imagine ten years earlier....
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From Washington to the Great Lakes
Pennsylvania Airlines, three nautical miles a minute In 1935, Pennsylvania Airlines promised speed between Washington and Detroit with the Boeing 247D, then extended...
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Flying over the Great Lakes
Thompson Aeronautical, the Great Lakes in short steps From 1928, Thompson Aeronautical Corporation developed a regional Great Lakes network carrying passengers and...
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Flying from the Great Lakes to New York
Pittsburgh Airways, saving time toward New York In 1930, Pittsburgh Airways linked Pittsburgh to New York via Philadelphia, promising major time savings and almost...
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Nicolas Vanier's Wild Odyssey
Nicolas Vanier, Siberia by amphibian Between December 2013 and March 2014, Nicolas Vanier linked the Pacific coast to Lake Baikal by dog sled after more than 5,700...
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