Typed caption on verso: "Crew with South Atlantic Pioneers / Some of the crew members of the first Lufthansa aircraft flying to South America on August 15, 1956 were so called 'South Atlantic Pioneers' who had already been flying this route on scheduled mail flights at the old Lufthansa. Thus on this particular flight the aircraft D-ALEC was commanded by captain Rudolf Mayr who had been the captain in charge of the last scheduled South Atlantic flight of the old Deutsche Lufthansa in 1939." Creation Date1956-08-15SubjectDeutsche Lufthansa (1953- )Air pilotsMayr, RudolfExtent1 photograph : print, black and white ; 25 x 19 cmOriginal Formatphotographic printsBibliographic CitationThe Commercial Airlines Collection/The Museum of FlightRightsNo copyright - United States
[Flight crew members of Deutsche Lufthansa's South Atlantic route], [2018-00-00-23_image_109]. Museum of Flight Digital Collections, accessed 09/02/2026, https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/nodes/view/27396