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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20551, 20 May 1932, Page 15

LINKING TWO CONTINENTS.

SHETLAND TO BE JUNCTION IN AMERICA-EUROPE AIR SERVICE. With three years the Shetland Islands may becomo one of the world's greatest air traffic centres. Plans are being made for a regular daily each-way servico between America and Europe along the Arctic air route'by the Trans-American Airlines Corporation. A representative of the Corporation was on his way early mi April to Norway in connexion with the projected Arctic air route linking Europe with America. After Norway, he will visit Iceland, the Shetland Islands, and London. The aeroplanes will fly from Detroit across Canada and the Hudson Bay, to a point in Baffin's Land, thence over Davis Strait to the West Coast of Greenland, and so to Reykjavik, in Iceland. The Iceland Government has recently granted the American Corporation a 75year concession, under which the latter is 'authorised to make a base at Reykjavik, and to fly over Iceland. . From Reykjavik the routes from America Avill radiavc to the Faroe Islands, the Shetlands, and Norway. The Shetland Islands will become the junction for the southerly routes to London and Paris,

It is expected that, via the Shetlands, the Detroit-London air crossing will take only 48 hours. Triple-enginod machines will bo used, and separate aeroplanes will fly only one of the ten stages into which the. route has been divided.