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| Keywords: Services francais totalement aeriens.png caption French services completely by air <br>In 1934 Air France was able to operate six links France-South America by air means The crossings of South Atlantic were done in the two directions three times by the land based aircraft Arc-en-Ciel and three times by the flying boat Croix-du-Sud The average cruising speed set by the two planes during these flights was 150 km/h for the seeplane and 200 km/h for the land based aircraft; hence the travel carried by air could represent a gain of 5 hours to compare to the average time of 4 days and half Actually in experimental phase yet the connecting flights and the unexpected difficulties encountered have more influence on the duration of the travel than the average speed of the aircraft Hense the best average times on the flight to South America were realized by the Croix-du-Sud 3 days and 17 hours fr Services français totalement aériens L'Illustration volume 92 issue 4785 page 389 1934-11-17 anonymous 1934 Anonymous-EU Latécoère 300 Couzinet Arc-en-Ciel Air France L'Illustration 1934 | ||||
