WORLD SPANNED BY AIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 248, 18 October 1924, Page 25

WORLD SPANNED BY AIR.

70,000 MILES NETWOEK OF NEW BOTTTES. " GREAT NOBTHER>.V Monoplanes with 12 engines each and airship ifaere to carry passengers over approximately 70,000 miles of airways will be dlscnesed at the international conference to be held shortly. The network of aerial routes, now being plotted on a new basis of International cooperation falls under six main groupings as follows :— Route. Miles. North Atlantic, North Pacific. North America, Asia, Northern Europe 19,000 Europe, India, Australia, Central ana Southern America 27 000 European system lliooo Cairo to the Cape 4300 Pernambuco-New York .. H6OO Peking-Singapore ~,', 3000 The' "Great Northern" world airway -will have its main stations at London, Moscow, Peking, San Francisco and New York. Big stations on the "Great Central" ■world line will be Paris, Constantinople, Bombay, Singapore and Sydney, Australia. Joining these two routes will be lines running north and Bonth, such as those between Moscow and Constantinople, Cairo and Capetown, New Tort and Pernambuco, and Perking and Singapore. A unified system of wireless communication, and direction-finding, is to be established on all the big main sir lines. The scheme provides that long-range machines shall be re-luellcd in the air from other machines. At intermediate stations passengers will be set down, and others taken on board by means of aeroplane tenders, which— while the express flies temporarily at a reduced speed—will be launched from under ber hull, and which will also fly up from the earth and attach themselves to moorings beneath the big machine.