Vintage Air India route map on a souvenir hand fan

Oh, flashbacks… When I was a kid I lived on Groote Eylandt in tropical Australia and the local airline, Bush Pilot Airways, flew DC3s with no air conditioning, so tended to be a ‘bit’ hot and sticky when you first got on board. They’d hand you a fan like these as you climbed the little rear staircase to get in. Also had a route map printed on it, but nowhere near as nice as these… They were the last airline in the world to be using DC3s, flying them right up until the late 1980s.

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