An interview with the civil pioneers….. Flying for Imperial Airways in the 1930s and 1940s

Royal Aeronautical Society Podcast · Sep 11, 2023 · 23m

After training with the RAF just after the First World War and service in India, Capt Mollard made his way to Imperial Airways, and tells us about life at Croydon Airport and the London to Paris route. In 1929 Mollard was transferred to Cairo and, as Imperial flew further towards Australia, so did he. Here he co-piloted Captain Alger in the hair-raising first experimental mail flight to Australia in 1931 and delivered one of the first Armstrong-Whitworth Atalantas that would serve on the soon to be opened Calcutta to Singapore route. The Second World War saw him continue to work for Imperial…