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An Air ferry is a service, at which cars are transported by planes, which travels regulary. The air ferry service was inaugaurated by retired RAF officer Air Commodore Griffith J. (‘Taffy’) Powell, who founded in 1948 an airline company called Silver City. They used Bristol 170 airplanes and operated until 1954 from Lympne airfield, later from Lydd airport. As airplanes later also Aviation Traders Carvair were used. In 1962 Channel Air Bridge and Silver City merged, but stopped in 1968 operation. the last air ferry took off from Lydd on 3 October1970. Other companies continued air ferry services until approximately 1980. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Aer Lingus Carvair loading a car at Bristol Airport, Bristol, England, in 1965 The Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair was a Douglas DC-4 converted to carry 22 passengers and 5 front-loaded cars. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
Ferry Command personnel are showing the stork insignia on automobile windshields, luggage, and on airplanes permanently assigned to the field.
Ferry service units are located all along the routes, with auxiliary units at smaller airports, to keep the planes in operating order.
Ferry squadrons and service squadrons have to be notified in case of accidents so that repair parts, modified orders and substitute pilots may be dispatched, if necessary.
The existing functions of the New York ADU were transferred to a newly-formed AirFerry Squadron One (VRF-1) and a new Aircraft Commissioning Unit.
The ferry pilots returned to the East Coast either on commercial flights or by flying battle-worn planes or new planes produced on the West Coast.
Naval Air Station New York, by insuring that the Navy and Marines were supplied with the fighter and bomber planes they needed, played a vital role in the victory of the United States over Japan.
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