WORLD SPANNED BY AIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 248, 18 October 1924, Page 61 (Supplement)

WORLD SPANNED BY AIR.

70,000 MILES NETWORK OF NEW BOTJTES. " GREAT NORTHERN." Monoplanes with 12 engines each and airship liners to carry passengers over approximately 70,000 miles or airways will be discussed 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 :— Eoute. Miles. North Atlantic, North Pacific. North America, Asia, Northern Europe 19,000 Europe India, Australia, Central ana Southern America 27 000 European system 11,000 Cairo to the Cape 4500 Pernambnco-New York <(finn Peking-Stogapore ..... ... ]]\ \". \ 3000 The" "Great Northern" world airway win have its main stations at London. Moscow, Peking, San Francisco and New Tork. Big station! on the "Great Central" world line wul be Paris, Constantinople, Bombay, Singapore and Sydney, Australia. Joining these two routes will be lines running north and south, such as those between Moscow and Constantinople, Cairo and Capetown, New Tork and Pernambuco, and Perking and Singapore. A unified system of wireless communication, and direction-finding, is to be established on all the big main air lines. The scheme provides that long-range machines shall be re-fuelled in the air from other machines. At intermemate 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 her hull, and which will also fly up from the earth and attach themselves to moorings beneath the big machine.