Near the close of Queen Elizabeth-I’sreign on December 31,1600 a royal charter was granted to a Joint Stock Company described as “ The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies” popularly known as
East India Company or John Company. The Hector, a British galleon of the third voyage chartered by the John Company underWilliam HawkinsTapati, near Surat. This was the first ship to fly an English flag off the coast of India. arrived on August 24, 1608 at the entrance to the River
bank deposits and income tax revenues; and Mumbai has the largest " i share of telephone and ....T'he European Town and the Native Town were physically separated. In Bombay, the ..... ~of the Maidans (across. the Fort and south of Churchgate mieiasuriiiig _ slightly less than a .... In the Western quarter, all efforts were ...
Bombay GREEN (NOW HORNIMAN CIRCLE)CAN
SEE THE COTTON BUNDLES AND PORTERS , THE ARMY PARADE,A BAND OF YOUNG
BOYS AT LEFT EXTREME WITH BUGLES AND DRUM ,ST.THOMAS CHURCH IN THE BACK
GROUND,EAST INDIA COMPANY OFFICES ,SENIOR ENGLISH MILITARY OFFICER BEING
CARRIED ON A DHOOLIE BY INDIAN PORTERS ARMED GUARDS WITH DRAWN SWORDS
WALKING IN FRONT.ALSO IN THE BACK OF THE GROUND CAN SEE A COVERED
VICTORIA HORSE CARRIAGE WITH ANOTHER MUSIC BAND PRECEDING THE
CARRIAGE,[MAY BE SOME IMPORTANT ENGLISH MAN/OFFICER] [
The aerodrome opened in 1928 as the then Vile Parle Flying Club. J. R. D. Tata, the father of civil aviation in India made India's maiden voyage from Juhu airport to Drigh Road airstrip, Karachi, via Ahmedabad, on 15 October 1932. Gandhi on Juhu Beach 1937
The airport served as the city's sole airport till Santacruz airport, now Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport. It served as the city's airport up to and even during the 1939-45 war. Two bitumen runways were in operation and a third was planned for construction in 1939 but this never occurred.
At present, Juhu has only a single operational runway (08/26, 3750 ft/1143 m) and is run by the Airports Authority of India. It hosts a flying club with several executive and light aircraft, gliders, and a heliport to ferry Oil and Natural Gas Corporation personnel by carrier Pawan Hans to offshore oil rigs at Bombay High. The airfield is located at Juhu, an upmarket residential suburb of northwest Mumbai flanking the city's Juhu Beach along theArabian sea.
The Imperial Airways 'Hanno' Hadley Page passenger airplane carries the England to India air mail, stopping in Sharjah to refuel.
ENGLAND TO INDIA IN 6 DAYS BY PLANE!-FASTEST TRAVEL POSSIBLE 1940'S
In 1929, Aga Khan offered through the Royal Aero Club, a special prize of £ 500 for “a solo flight
completed within six weeks from the date of starting”. The prize was to remain open for one year from
January 1930. There were three contestants – an eager JRD Tata, Man Mohan Singh, a civil engineer
graduating from Bristol who had learnt to fly in England, and ASPY Merwan Engineer, later the Chief of
the IAF. The three men set out flying single-engine, light aeroplanes with simple instruments and without radio. Man Mohan Singh took off from Croydon airport, south of London, in a Gypsy Moth
Gypsy Moth
which he
called Miss India; ASPY Engineer followed the same route while JRD Tata, also in a Gypsy Moth, started
his journey in the reverse direction. After Croydon, Man Mohan Singh flew on to Lympne, Le Bourget
(Paris), Dijon, Marseillers, Rome, Naples, Catania, Tripoli and Sirle. From Gaza, he flew eastwards to
India, with Engineer trailing a day behind. Singh finally landed at Drigh Road, Karachi on 12 May 1930,
But one thing is significant - in all
the years of operation and the millions of miles these aircraft flew
not a single passenger died. There was a death in the fire in Karachi
- but not a passenger.
The 1930s might seem to be a
potentially dangerous time to have been an air passenger. Certainly
there were more accidents for every 1,000 passengers than there are
today. But a single Boeing 747 accident can kill 3 times as many
people as the total of fatalities in the 1930s. The 200,000 people
who flew on commercial services in 1936 evidently didn't believe they
were putting themselves in mortal danger.
Peter Day
HP-42 at Cairo
They were one of the first aeroplanes
in which the flying crew (pilot and assistant) were in an enclosed
cabin. They were also unpressurised meaning they could not fly at
more than a few thousand feet as the passengers would feel the
absence of oxygen, but flying low means increased turbulence so they
could be bouncy flights.
Their operation was not accident free,
the Airport Society database shows 34 incidents involving the
Imperial Airways aircraft all over the world - from Croydon to Cairo,
Kampala to Karachi. These incidents were of varying levels of
seriousness, from a wing-tip collision between two HP 42E while
taxying in Khartoum, to a forced landing in the desert near Qatar
leading to the complete loss of the aircraft and another that was
burnt out in a fire in a hangar in Karachi.
Imperial Airways aircraft cabin, 1930s
A publicity postcard that doesn't mention the aircraft type - maybe an
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy which in the interwar period constituted the
fleet that maintained Imperial Airways' lunchtime service to Paris and
is believed to have been the world's first named airline service.
Karachi Airport (1930)
winning the historic air race. Engineer landed the next day and, though he came second, due to a technicality,
was eventually declared the winner, which Singh accepted. On October 15th, 1932 JRD Tata took off from Karachi to Ahmedabad and on to Bombay in a solo flight carrying postage mail. He landed at the Juhu airstrip and India's civil aviation took off. In 1946, Tata Airlines became Air India and in 1953, the company was nationalized by the Government of India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.154 Argosy stemmed from a declaration by
Imperial Airways that all its aircraft would be multi-engine designs, on
the grounds of safety. They were intended to replace the older
single-engine de Havilland aircraft that Imperial Airways had inherited
from its constituent companies, mainly Daimler Airway. The passenger cabin of an Imperial Airways Argosy, which could
accommodate 18 passengers. Posing at the rear is the steward who served
them a buffet lunch as part of the airline's "Silver Wing" service: Argosies continued in service with Imperial Airways until 1935, with the last example G-AACJ City of Manchester
being used for joy-riding by United Airways Ltd of Stanley Park
Aerodrome (Blackpool), that was later merged into British Airways Ltd.
It continued in use with British Airways until December 1936.
Argosies continued in service with Imperial Airways until 1935, with the last example, City of Manchester (G-AACJ), being used for joy-riding by UnitedAirwaysLtd of Stanley Park Aerodrome (Blackpool), which later was merged intoBritish AirwaysLtd. Itcontinuedin use withBritish Airways untilDecember 1936.
April1935map showingImperial Airways' routes to India, Australia and South Africa.Imperial Airwayswas the early British commercial long-range airline, operating from 1924 to ... Industrial troubles with the pilots delayed the start ofservices until26 April 1924, when a ... "Wings of Peace (Armstrong WhitworthArgosy)".
Imperial AirwaysArmstrong WhitworthArgosyI G-EBLF flying over London. ... The type remained inservice with Imperial Airways until 1935. ... was merged intoBritish AirwaysLtd. Itcontinuedin use withBritish Airways untilDecember 1936.
Hello ladies!
Caption: Air hostesses were first introduced in Air-India way back in 1946. Beautifully tailored European dresses with caps set at a jaunty angle formed the uniform. Sari, as a uniform, was introduced when Air-India acquired its first Boeing 707 in 1960s.
Undated picture of an air hostess welcoming a passenger alighting from a Tata Airlines airplane.
The Sari becomes the official dress code for Air India
Ms. Vijayalaxmi Pandit about to enter an Air-India Aircraft ... Flying Club, Mrs.F.D.Petti - India's First Lady Pilot, Ms. Tata - her sister also a ... SARI-CLAD AIR HOSTESSES of Air-india greeted their colleague Glynne ... Air-India had built a concrete Boeing 707 in the airlines livery at a public park in Juhu, Bombay in the 1960s.
Air India International entered the jet age in 1960 when its first Boeing ... Those were the days when the flight attendants were called Air Hostesses. ... An AI 707 in what appears to be her earliest livery - very similar to the Super ... first made his appearance way back in 1946, when Bobby Kooka, then A-I's ...
May 1, 2010 · 40 posts · 10 authors
1932: JRD Tata prepares to take off from Karachi, on his inaugural flight carrying cargo of mail to Juhu, Bombay
In 1932: JRD Tata prepares to take off from Karachi, on his inaugural flight carrying cargo of mail to Bo
In 1990, JRD’s vision was finally fulfilled when Air India, in
association with Indian Airlines and the Indian Air Force, created a
world record by evacuating 1,11,000 people from Amman (in Jordan) to
Mumbai in 59 days just before the Gulf War broke out in the Middle East.
This was the “the largest evacuation effort by a single civilian
airline.”
ThePrint
largest civilian evacuation ...
This was probably JRD’s greatest contribution to modern
civil aviation in India. As he put it, “No success in material terms is
worthwhile, unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and
its people.”
A year after he was awarded India’s highest civilian honour, the
Bharat Ratna, JRD Tata passed away in Geneva on November 23, 1993, at
the age of 89. On his death, the parliament of India was adjourned as a
tribute to JRD – a rare honour usually not given to people who are not
members of the parliament.
But, for the initiative of a few people - airline development might never have got off ... In May 1933 Poona was substituted as a halt in place of Bombay due to ... Official cover flown on the first return flight from Trivandrum to Bombay ... The flights to Colombo were made by Mr Homi Bharucha in a Miles M4A Merlin VT-AHC.
one palm-thatched shed, one whole time pilot assisted by Tata and Vintcent, one part-time engineer and two apprentice-mechanics.
Initial service included weekly airmail service with a Puss Moth aircraft between Karachi and Madras via Ahmedabad andBombay,
covering over 1,300 miles. In its very first year of operation, Tata
Airlines flew 160,000 miles, carrying 155 passengers and 10.71 ton of
mail. In the next few years, Tata Airlines continued to rely for its
revenue on the mail contract with the Government of India for carriage
of surcharged mail, including a considerable quantity of overseas mail
brought to Karachi by Imperial Airways. The same year,
K.L.M (Royal Dutch Air Lines) Douglas DC-2 (PH-AKK Koetling)
Image above right: K.L.M (Royal Dutch Air Lines) Douglas DC-2 (PH-AKK Koetling) flying over Jodhpur. K.L.M used 14-seater DC-2's in the 1930's on the Amsterdam-Batavia route with stops at Jodhpur, Allahabad and Calcutta airfields. K.L.M. started the Amsterdam-Batavia (at the time part of the Dutch East Indies) service in 1924 (non-scheduled) with a single-engined 8-seater Fokker F.VII.
Bristol Bombay - K 3583 The first production Bristol Bombay - K 3583 - flew in March 1939 and was to be the basis for the post War Bristol Type 170 Freighter, Wayfarer and Superfreighter Following the success during the Second World War of the twin engined Bristol Type 130 Bombay utility aircraft in the Middle East theatre of operations, the Bristol Type 170 was devised along similar lines but with a much larger fuselage and simplified single fin tail and two-spar wing construction. It was also to be more specialised as a rugged heavy duty freighter with low initial and running costs and easy maintainance without the use of any special tools. Indeed, initial projections were for just one man hour of maintenance per aircraft hour of flight. The production Type 130 Bombay had been introduced in 1939 as one of the first large twin engined monoplane designs to serve with the Royal Air Force. Built to meet Air Ministry specification C.26/31 for an aircraft capable of carrying 24 fully armed troops, 10 stretcher cases as an air ambulance or equivalent mixed freight, the high seven-spar cantilever winged fixed-undercarriage Bombay used lessons learned from Bristol's unique twin engined Bagshot fighter ( J7765 ) of 1927. The oval sectioned monocoque steel strip and aluminium fueslage frame of the Bombay was covered by a stressed Alclad skin. Alclad - an American invention - consisted of the lightweight but potentially corrosion prone Duralumin coated with a thin film of pure aluminium. For civil aircraft specification 22/44 Bristol designer Archibald E. Russell had retained the wide tracked fixed undercarriage of the Bombay but gave the wing - with the same section and taper ratio - a swept leading and straight trailing edge.
super constellation plane
Air India super constellation plane readying for London flight at Juhu airport
On June 8, 1948, Air India's newly acquired aircraft, 'Malabar Princess', made a historic 8000 kilometre journey from Mumbai to London.
The 24-hour ride was made on a 40-seater Lockheed L-749 Constellation commanded by Captain K.R. Guzdar.
This aircraft was not capable of flying continuously over a long distance, thus the flight had to make technical halts at Cairo and Geneva for refuelling.
The aircraft carried 35 passengers which included Maharaja Duleep Singh, the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, the Rajpramukh of Saurashtra, JRD Tata, H.B. Malcolm and R.R. Noble
JRD Tata
Mr & Mrs J.R.D. Tata meeting Mr V.K. Krishna Menon, then High Commissioner for India, on the arrival of Malabar Princess.
The increased capacity enabled the creation of a new connection Bombay-Nairobi-Aden on 21January 1950 since 26July of that year, the plane landed in Karachi.On the route to London, Rome was from 12March served as an additional stopover.was increased as the number of flights to London to four a week, two of these services started from 17 October in Calcutta, and on 8April 1951 by India from London stopped after lift-off machine for the first time for a stopover in Paris.From 2December 1952 launched some of the leading on Bombay, Cairo and Rome, London flights in Delhi, and on 21February the following year was incorporated into the network of Dusseldorf All.Another innovation was the economy class on international flights, on 7December 1952 with DC-4
DC-4
Five-seat cabin monoplane-Miles Aircraft Limited-1935 was opened from Bombay to Karachi, Aden and Nairobi.
This video follows a historical simulation of an RAF pilots experience flying the Spitfire in the Battle of Britain. These Spitfires are scrambled to intercept German He-111 bombers and Bf-109 fighters of the German Luftwaffe. This video was made using the combat flight simulator IL-2 Sturmovik Great ...
This video follows a historical simulation of young RAF pilots experience flying the Spitfire to intercept German Ju88 Bombers in the Battle of Britain. This video was made using the combat flight simulator IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles series (Kuban, Stalingrad, Bodenplatte, Moscow). This video is ...
A Spitfire Sortie, Intercepting multiple Bf109's and He111's over Britain | IL-2 Great Battles So it took some time but here it is! A somewhat cinematic video th
operated service Bombay-Ahmedabad.Due to lack of profitability of the route but had 26October, reinstated.Between July and September 1949, the Bombay-Nagpur-Calcutta route was flown daily, and 1Opened in March 1950 machines of the type Viking day services between Bombay and Delhi.A month later, the approach of Hyderabad on the Bombay-Madras-Colombo route discontinued and replaced by Tirutschirapalli, and finally on 10December 1952 the service of the DC-3 extends between Madras and Bangalore on Triwandrum, Koimbatur and Cochin to Ma
49C Super Constellation
49C Super Constellation, the first on 19June 1954 will be put into service, and after the second plane was taken over in July, had the 749A Pan American World Airways Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (N1033V) "Cipper Seven Seas" arriving at London Heathrow on September 12, 1954 during Pan Am's heyday.
Photo by RuthAS
749A
for two new routes will be exempted.Bombay, Madras and Bombay-Calcutta-Singapore-Bangkok-Hong Kong was on 1614th July respectivelyAugust opened.The latter route was to the extradition of three L-1049E
L-1049E
7thMay be extended from 1955 to Tokyo.Finally, we included two months later, the airport of Beirut and Zurich in the London route.
In April 1956, followed by Damascus and Prague.On 11June can AII Bombay their first L-1049G
One of the neatest vintage airliner promos around. Fantastic footage of PAA Strats, plus s
take over on 5October for the opening of the weekly service, Bombay-Madras-Singapore-Darwin-Sydney used.As the first non-Soviet bloc owned airline also received All traffic rights for Moscow.The Soviet capital was allowed - in the pool with the Tu-104 Aeroflot
Tu-104 Aeroflot
- from 14August, Delhi and Tashkent are served.Their first jet aircraft could AII in February 1960 to introduce the first place.
JUHU AIRPORT BOMBAY WHICH WAS THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
BEFORE.
SANTACRUZ AIRPORT WAS BUILT IN 1948 Nationalisation The early '50s saw the financial condition of various airlines operating in India deteriorate to such an extent that the Government decided to step in and nationalise the air transport industry and accordingly two autonomous Corporations were created on August 1, 1953. Indian Airlines was formed with the merger of eight domestic airlines to operate domestic services, while Air India International was established to operate the overseas services.
Accidents and incidents
On 15 July 1953, a BOAC
DH.106 Comet
landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Mumbai's much largerSanta Cruz International Airport. The aircraft was flown out some nine days later.
On 28 May 1968, the pilot of a Garuda Indonesia Convair 990
Convair 990
also mistook Juhu Aerodrome for Santacruz Airport and tried to land his aircraft. It overshot the runway falling just short of the traffic road ahead and several residential buildings when its nose wheel got stuck in a ditch at the end of the runway. All passengers survived.
On 24 December 1972, Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated by Douglas DC-8-53
also landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport. The aircraft overran the end of the runway and was damaged beyond economic repair. International Airport , Santacruz Built in 1948[people looking at one of the first jet plane in bombay]
,+India%3B+about+1950.jpg)
+India+1922.jpg)
![[Bombay+-+view+from+Yacht+Club+[View+across+harbour+with+boats+and+pavilion+on+harbour+front].jpg]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcC1o-pnBQIYDdhqlruUrXGUTI7ZfAum5mgve88DH8RJK2AqX6-XGT5YtwkgWdsm9x8FMMHX6amZmt4T3QBexNjLoQVNGEAbVCR1YaTfHMVB9b7lFPAtJnEMmsxvwgF_aRe46ToN5hYU/s1600-rw/Bombay+-+view+from+Yacht+Club+%5BView+across+harbour+with+boats+and+pavilion+on+harbour+front%5D.jpg)
%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fpublic-media.si-cdn.com%2Ffiler%2FKarachi_to_Bombay_to_Calcutta_11-01-11_1_GALL.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.airspacemag.com%2Fhistory-of-flight%2Fkarachi-to-bombay-to-calcutta-77003851%2F&tbnid=MbAxLn0G47yfJM&vet=12ahUKEwjA19yf7JHtAhXSlEsFHb9mBwoQMygfegQIARB-..i&docid=FXC2ijGxSIzbxM&w=220&h=130&q=Karachi's%20Drigh%20Road%20Aerodrome%20to%20Bombay's%20Juhu%20Airstrip&client=ubuntu&ved=2ahUKEwjA19yf7JHtAhXSlEsFHb9mBwoQMygfegQIARB-)
&tbnid=Gu9fNGrK5mXIdM&vet=12ahUKEwi1rNbi9ZHtAhUGeSsKHePXCR8QMygAegQIARAc..i&docid=KBgqh-t1Mj_a1M&w=2443&h=1842&q=On%2024%20December%201972%2C%20Japan%20Airlines%20Flight%20472%2C%20operated%20by%20Douglas%20DC-8-53&client=ubuntu&ved=2ahUKEwi1rNbi9ZHtAhUGeSsKHePXCR8QMygAegQIARAc)
