EMPIRE AIR ROUTES.
Flying Boat Service Extension
To India.
SHORTLY TO AUSTRALIA.
(Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, October 4. A regular weekly Empire flying boat service between Britain and India will begin to-morrow when the Calypsc will leave Alexandria with passengers and mails for Karachi. This is the first Imperial Airways flying boat 'service from Southampton beyond Alexandria and marks an advance in reorganisation of Imperial Airways to the Far East, and a change from land 'planes, which will shortly be extended to Australia.
SOVIET AIRSHIP. Continuous Flight Beats Graf Record. 130 HOURS AND NO FUELLING. (Received 1 p.m.) MOSCOW, October 4. The airship U.5.5.R.V.6 completed 130 hours of flight without refuelling, beating the previous record of the Graf Zeppelin by 11 hours. With her sister ships she will begin 1000-mile freight and passenger services from Moscow to Sverdlovsk in 1938.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 7
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