Flight Line

摘要

Of all the employments offered by British civil airlines in the 1950s and '60s, piloting a Bristol Freighter on one of the short cross-Channel car ferry routes linking the UK with the Continent was surely the most gentlemanly. Sector lengths were almost ridiculously short, the airports used in the UK - primarily Southend and Lydd's so-called Ferryfield - being very close to the coast, as were those 'on the other side' at Calais, Ostend and Rotterdam. As a result, a pilot could leave home in the morning, drive to the airport, fly several return trips and still be back in time for dinner.