| Australia 1954 (Abt) QANTAS Empire Airways Post Card "Super Constellation"
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| Post Card from QANTAS Empire Airways with colour photograph of the "Super Constellation". Unused. Amidst patriotic fervour in 1954, Qantas operated four Royal flights, carrying Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on their Australian tour. That same year Qantas began flying Super Constellation aircraft twice weekly from Sydney to San Francisco and Vancouver via Fiji, Canton Island and Hawaii. On 14 January 1958, two Super Constellations took off from Melbourne to inaugurate a pioneering round the world service. One traveled via India along the Kangaroo Route, while the other flew eastward on the Southern Cross Route via the United States. The Super Constellations circumnavigated the globe in opposite directions, arriving back in Sydney six days later. Before long, eight round the world services were operating weekly.
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Item #: INV-112329
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Pricing in AU$
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Within Australia
A$
19.99
(inc GST 1.82 )
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Outside Australia
A$ 18.17
(approx. US$12.18)
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