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Thanks Lars, Anders and Mats! Looks like an interesting book. Google translate gives me: The Nordic mission flight began dramatically. A group of Norwegian missionaries were stuck in Madagascar after World War II. No ship could be sent to pick them up because the coasts were still mined. The search ...

Thank you, Lennart - that illustrates to me what, the edge of which, can just be seen in the von Rosen shot. I'd wondered at first if it was an outlined number 7, except the outlining wasn't equal. It's the edge of this SLA plate, rivetted-on to the plywood fuselage. The Swedish Blue and Yellow ...

Excellent! I'll use my text recognition app, and get translating. Especially nice - the big photo of the Savoia! Thank you again, Lars - it's amazing what you find for me. The wings logo is still quite distinct on that not very clear image of the Junkers. The only thing in common with the use on the ...

Thank you, Lars!

Hello. I've seen on Wikipedia that SLA bought 10 LVG C.VIs and elsewhere that they bought 8 - with the 2 remaining airworthy ones, when the company was dissolved, going to the Navy - numbered as 9 and 10. Could that be where confusion over the 8 or 10 bought has arisen? Attached (colourised) von ...

SE-ASD in Spain. A (colourised) photo from my friend Leandro Escorsell from the blog, leandroaviacion. The photo was taken at the El Prat, Barcelona Airport, (el Aeropuerto del Prat Barcelona) and for reasons that he did not know, it was parked in the military zone very close to the sea, where there ...

Thank you Lars! It is indeed a very nice picture. Imagine how pleased I was to be sent a group of excellent photos showing the exact event I was interested in! We're pretty sure that CG von Rosen was using a Leica (one of the III models, I guess - maybe a IIIc) thus explaining the good quality of ...

Copyright C.G. von Rosen Family. Courtesy of Eric and Heli von Rosen. Please give the proper credits for any use of this wonderful shot taken by Carl Gustaf von Rosen of SE-BAH 'Sam', (most probably taken on Saturday 8th December 1945) at Lideta, Addis Ababa. ልደታ አዲስ አበባ An attempt at colourisation b ...

Thanks Lars. Yes, I do have a copy - it was me that did the proof-reading for the English version for Heli. There's another very long and technical SE-BAH article that I see I haven't had a go at translating yet. I'll start soon! Pete.

Svensk Flygtidning 1/1946 LANGFLYGNINGAR är numera vardagsmat för aba-sila:s piloter. I julnumret1945 berättade vi om hur C.-G. von Rosen startat med »fästningen» Sam den 4/12 och första dagen flog Bromma – Neapel nonstop samt samma dag vidare till Kairo – sammanlagt 4 274 km. Flygningen dit tog näst ...

Thanks Lars, looks interesting - will translate! I've had a quick look at some of the magazines, and it's a great historic source. Best wishes, Pete.

A previous comment: SE-BAH 'Sam' (F-17), left Bromma on the 4th December and arrived on the 6th: Tues 4th Dec 1945 - Bromma 0700 - Naples 1538, Naples 1717 - Cairo 2320. Weds 5th Dec 1945 - Rest Day. Thurs 6th Dec 1945 - Cairo - Addis Ababa 1400. Sat 8th Dec 1945 - 37 minute morning test flight ...

Thank you Lars! I've been trying to translate the three articles about SE-BAH and the other Felix's. The technical one (on Projekt Runeberg) is a little difficult, but my Norwegian daughter-in-law (Marte-Marie Forsberg), has offered to help. I'm thinking to merge all three into one large source ...

Teknisk Tidskrift / Årgång 74. 1944 / 1253 Ett bombplan blir trafikplan Ingenjörerna Bo Hoifström och Olof Carlstein, Stockholm http://runeberg.org/tektid/1944/1265.html http://runeberg.org/tektid/1944/1266.html http://runeberg.org/tektid/1944/1267.html http://runeberg.org/tektid/1944/1268.html http: ...

Arne - I proofread the page and this should now show like this - Svenska trafikflygmiljonärer. (Antal flugna km vid ABA:s jubileum 2/6 -44) Flygf. A. Lindberg, 1.122.377 km. Flygmiljonär d. 6/7 -39. Flygf. M. Lindholm, 1.621.057 km. Flygmiljonär d. 25/8 -38. Flygf. G. Lindow 1.828.567 km. Flygmiljonä ...

Thank you for those informative replies and interesting clippings - now I understand.
Are there any more of those crew photos with von Rosen and Gunnar Eriksson?

Lars - I've had a go at a translation. Any corrections would be most welcome! There does seem to be more information in this article (link in previous post) than I've found anywhere else. I'm puzzled by the usage, twice, of the word: 'miljonär', as in: ' ABA-miljonärerna ', and ' signalistmiljonären ...

Flygtidningen 17 av 1944
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Klas - tack så mycket för dessa underbara skanningar. Jag kommer att gå på att översätta artikeln till engelska! Min far hade ett flyg i SE-BAH med von Rosen i Addis. Jag gissar att du har sett tråden "Etiopien"? Med vänliga hälsningar, Pete. http://forum.flyghistoria.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13926&p= ...

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One of the photos of SE-BAH at Lideta - Copyright C.G. von Rosen Family
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1945, November 11: The newly formed Nordic Missions flight started with a Douglas DC-3 belonging to ABA making its first flight from Bromma to Madagascar to retrieve Norwegian missionaries. Missionsflygs own Douglas C-53 Skytrooper was later purchased from the USAAF and registered as SE-APG (Swedish ...

Heli von Rosen's translation of the article in link: [11th of December, 1945] Addis Ababa from the air (picture) On Monday, the Swedish Mission Flight returned from its second trip to Ethiopia. The pilot both times, has been Flight Captain C.G. von Rosen, who also put the above unique photograph at ...