THE HALTON’S APPRENTICESHIP

Even for a stopgap, the Handley Page Halton proved a disappointment in BOAC service, but the converted civil Halifax had looked like a good proposition when it conducted a route-proving trip to Cairo and Khartoum in 1946 BOAC HALTON PROVING FLIGHT Halton G-AHDU pictured by Charles Sims over the Pyramid of Djoser, part of the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. ALL PHOTOS AEROPLANE Typical colonial-era dress is the order of the day for BOAC’s traffic staff at Almaza airport in