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FS2004 Indiana Jones NY to Venice 1938. This flight is based on the trans-Atlantic journey depicted in the movie, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". So of course, it is completely fictional. Trans-Atlantic passenger services did not arrive until mid-1939 and the schedules were disrupted and dropped after war broke out in September of that year. So for Indiana Jones to fly from St. Johns to Lajes in 1938, poetic license was used by Mr. Spielberg! Therefore, that fiction has been added to by bringing forward the development and introduction into PAA service of the Douglas DC-4 passenger aircraft; the first land-based aircraft capable of flying the distance from St. Johns to Lajes with one load of fuel. In this Flight Simulator journey, you will fly the DC-4 between La Guardia and Lisbon, where the PAA service terminated. The remainder of the trip, from Lisbon to Venice, will be undertaken by Imperial Airways, using one of their new DeHavilland DH-91 Albatross four-engined passenger aeroplanes. By Bruce Kennewell.