Aer Turas Douglas DC-4 freighter at Liverpool (Speke) Airport in 1967 Aer Turas Douglas DC-8 freighter aircraft at Dublin Airport in 1993. Aer Turas Teoranta (from the Irish meaning Air Journey) was an Irish airline and later a freight operator based in Dublin, Ireland, from 1962 until May 2003.
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Unable to return to Paris, Brisch was urged by the British War Office and Vickers Ltd to come to England, but that journey proved extremely difficult. Sir Stafford Cripps, then British Ambassador in Moscow, helped to arrange his land and air journey from Riga to Rangoon in British Burma.Brisch (2018) introduction He left Riga in June 1941, scarcely a month before the German occupation, reaching Rangoon (by way of Chungking, wartime capital of China) in August 1941.
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The Melbourne newspaper "The Argus" said in its editorial: "In an age of extraordinary mechanical progress one takes many things for granted; but flight halfway-across the world seems too remarkable for analysis. If the present conquest of speed be maintained at the present rate an air journey to England in these days will become commonplace. And Australia, that vast land over the edge of beyond will become part of a great world". The KLM "Uiver" was only capable of flying 1,500 kilometre legs so had to refuel three times before the first official stop in Baghdad.
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Hunt, The Ascent of Everest, p. 58 Although a sea passage was cheaper, Hunt stated that the main reason for choosing it over an air journey was "the further chance which life in a ship would provide for us to settle down as a team in ideal conditions, accompanied by no discomfort, urgency or stress".Hunt, The Ascent of Everest, p. 57 In Kathmandu, the party was looked after by the British ambassador, Christopher Summerhayes,Hunt, The Ascent of Everest, p. 59 who arranged rooms with embassy staff,Band, Everest Exposed, pp. 129–30 there being no hotels in Kathmandu at the time.
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This he did, standing unsuccessfully in Kingston upon Hull North West at the 1924 general election, in Stoke Newington in 1929 and 1931, and in Luton in 1935. Having failed in his Parliamentary contested, by 1935, Kerran was a car worker, and he looked outside the UK for further political activism. He became an advisor to King Zog of Albania, focusing on opposition to fascism, and in 1937 undertook a dangerous air journey from Hong Kong to San Francisco. In 1939, he worked in Germany to help Jews escape the Nazi regime, transporting letters of recommendation from Wilhelm Furtwängler.
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While commercial high-speed trains have lower maximum speeds than jet aircraft, they offer shorter total trip times than air travel for short distances. They typically connect city centre rail stations to each other, while air transport connects airports that are typically farther from city centres. High-speed rail (HSR) is best suited for journeys of 1 to 4½ hours (about ), for which the train can beat air and car trip time. For trips under about , the process of checking in and going through airport security, as well as traveling to and from the airport, makes the total air journey time equal to or slower than HSR.
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In the first chapter, Arrival, she narrates about her initial education in Toronto, Canada under the care of her paternal grandparents, as her parents had separated when she was two years old; her decision not to pursue a doctoral degree in English but take up a job as an English lecturer on a two-year assignment in a school in Bhutan. in response to an ad posted by the World University Service of Canada; her grandfather's skepticism about her taking up this assignment in an alien land, her departure from Canada and arriving at the Paro Airport in Bhutan after a bumpy air journey. In the subsequent chapters she narrates about the Himalayan topography of the isolated valleys, the Bhutanese people, history of Buddhism in the country, the religious affiliation of the people to the Bon religion of shamanistic beliefs, their social customs, etiquette, food habits, poor hygienic conditions, her posting in the Sherubtse College near Trashigang in eastern Bhutan, her love life and so forth. She explains about Buddha and his teachings.
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