AIR TRAVEL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 166, 27 April 1935, Page 5

AIR TRAVEL.

LONDbN'-BRINDISI SERVICE. TO BE STARTED SHORTLY. (United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, April 25. The Australian Press Association learns that the London-Brindisi service will shortly commence. It will take outward Australian mail, reducing the time to Brisbane to 11J days, thus enabling later posting from London. The service will not carry inward mails from Australia, as departures from Brindisi do not connect with 'planes bound for Europe.

A London cablegram dated April 8 stated: Imperial Airways, Ltd., is to inaugurate on April 28 a one-day passenger service to Brindisi. It will operate until September 301 The 'planes will call at Paris, Marseilles and Rome, leaving London on Sundays anS Wednesdays, connecting with the African and Australian services. Passengers for Australia may thus travel all the way by air if accommodation is available. The flight of 1352 miles to Brindisi in the six-passenger 'planes will occupy 12 hours, saving 18 hours on the present London-Brindisi journey service. ' This is the iorerunner of the proposed development of the Empire services, and it will be Imperial Airways' longest one-day European schedule. The service will not connect with the inwai-d service from Australia and will not affect the mails either way.

FROM CAIRO TO THE CAPE.

LONDON, April 25. A Rojlal Air Force flight to the Cape, in which four trOop carriers are engaged, started from Cairo this morning on the first stage of the journey. COMPOSITE SEAPLANE. FOR EXPERIMENTAL USE. LONDON, April 25. Short Bros, have received from Imperial Ainvays an order for a "composite seaplane" for experimental use, with a view to a trans-Atlantic air mail service. The craft consists of two fourengined monoplanes and a flying boat which will carry a heavily-loaded mail seaplane into the air, where it will be released at a considerable height, thus overcoming the taking-off difficulties. It is calculated that the seaplane will have 10001 b weight of pay-load and enough fuel to carry it, say, 2100 miles between the Azores and Bermuda, even against a continuous. 60-miles-an-hour head wind.

RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT.

PRIVATE OWNERS' PRIVILEGES. LONDON, April 25. Germany and Poland have joined the international scheme whereby reciprocal privileges are granted to private owners of aeroplanes and amateur pilots on foreign tours, relieving them of landing and hangar fees, etc. Britain, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, Italy, Roumania, and Japan are other countries that ar? joining in this exchange of '■ ;

ANGLO-AMERICAN PACT.

WASHINGTON, April 24. By a series of treaties eliminating diplomatic complications the way has been opened for the development of trans-oceanic air services, both American and foreign. A newly signed agreement with Britain, snipping off yards of red tape hertofore necessary for flights from 'one country to another, is disclosed as one of the large and growing number of such agreements already in effect with Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, South Africa and most of the western hemisphere countries. One will he negotiated with Australia, soon. The effect of the Anglo-American treaty is explained as providing a routine issuance to an American pilot of a license to fly over British areas named in the agreement. A British pilot gets the same concessions regarding American areas.