AERIAL MAILS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19915, 30 April 1930, Page 16

AERIAL MAILS.

THE AUSTRALIAN SERVICES. (FROM OUR OWK COBBBSPONDENT.) SYDNEY, April 24. While Mr G. Uhn, colleague of Kingsford'Smith in the latter'a epic flights, and joint managing director of Australian National Airways, does not share the recent prophecy that, in ton years' time, it will bo possible to make a non-stop flight from Australia to England in aeroplanes in three days, he believes the day is fast approaching when the ordinary cruising speed of commercial and passenger air liners, such as those now operating daily on the Syd-ney-Brisbane airway, will be 200 miles an hiur. The cruising epood of the liners on that skyway is now'loo miles an hour, with a top ; speed of 117 miles aii hour. Mr Ulm'believes also that, with improved design of aircraft, practically automatic steering will overcome the risks of "blind flying." The total mileage of Australian National Airway liners, during their brief three months' operation between Sydney and Brisbane, means, in effect, that they do a trip round the world every 25 days. Not a* bad record for a new and unsubsidised private enterprise, without an . accident to passengers or personnel of its aeroplanes. With the extension of the daily service to Melbourne, in four or five weeks' time, the total mileage covered between Brisbane and Victoria capital will mean a world flight in distance about every 35 days. The company proposes to equip all its liners with two-day wireless communication,