Re: Goacom News Clippings by JoelD'Sousa - Aug.11, 2002.
Flight from Lisbon to Goa, see also the excerpt in Portuguese (below), by
Carlos Alexandre Morais in Cronologia Geral da India Portuguesa,
(1498-1962), p. 197-198.
FLIGHT FROM LISBON TO GOA: "On November 19, 1930, twenty-seven years after
the epoch-making flight of Wright brothers, landed on Goan soil the
eventful flight, the first successful flight from Lisbon to Goa. This
adventurous trip began on November 1 of the same year from Amadora, a city
seven kms away from Lisbon. During the flight the pilots made various stops
along the route. It was not a 17 hours flight, like today, but an
experimental 19 days voyage. It took so long because of unexpected delays
along the route." (Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues in Memoirs,
Herald-Mirror)
"1930
- E� publicado o Acto Colonial.
- Moreira Cardoso e Sarmento Pimentel, no avi�o Mar�o, fazem a viagem ae�rea
Portugal-India. A distancia de 8914 quilometros e� percorrida em 71 horas
e 30 minutos; � o primeiro avi�o a aterrar em Goa (planalto de Mormug�o),
num aerodromo muito rudimentar mandado construir pelo major-aviador
Francisco Higino Carveiro Lopes.
- � criado o Arquivo Geral e Historico da India Portuguesa."
In anticipation of this historic event, funds were raised from among the
public to prepare the runway on the Mormugao plateau and other expenses.
The staff and students at St. Joseph�s School in Cansaulim staged a concert
on 2 of February 1930. A special hymn in Portuguese composed in
antecipation of this event by Pio Filipe da Silva was sung by the school
youth.
Himno de Sauda��o
O fulgor e o brilho do dia festival
Nos sossobra e nos encanta
O rumor e o susuro da musica teatral
Nos anima e para o palco nos encaminha.
Tomemos, pois, o caminho para o palco
Que e um predilecto g�sto do comico
Onde nos estudandes da escola ingleza
Exibimos a scenas de surpreza.
Muito entusiastas pela avia��o em Goa
Que em toda a parte com for�a s�a
La vem um avi�o, uma colossal pav�a
Cuja luz e som nos ofusca e nos atr�a.
C�rro C�rro
Vamos, vamos irm�os Vamos, vamos irm�os
Recitar e cantar as nossas canc�es Ver os nossos primeiros avi�es
Vamoa, vamos irm�os Vamos, vamos irm�os
Encher de alegria os nossos cora��es. Satisfazer as nossas aspira��es.
Comp�sto e oferecido por Pio Filipe da Silva a escola ingleza "St. Joseph�s
School" de Cansaulim, por ocasi�o da recita dada pelos alunos a favor do
fundo para avia��o em Goa, em os 2 de Fevereiro de 1930, festa de N. S. De
Boa Morte.
Pio Filipe da Silva
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