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Monday, October 27, 2014
Air New Zealand 50th anniversary stamp, 1990
The genesis of Air NZ was in 1940 when 10 passengers travelled from Auckland to Australia in the flying boat
Aotearoa
of Tasman Empire Airways Ltd (TEAL). That journey took nine hours - Air New Zealand trans-Tasman jets today take less than three.
For lots of info and heaps of photos, see the book
The Aircraft of Air New Zealand and affiliates since 1940
by Paul Sheehan.
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