AIR LINE OVER ATLANTIC

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21646, 3 December 1935, Page 11

AIR LINE OVER ATLANTIC

Reported Decision On Route NEWFOUNDLAND TO IRELAND (UHITED IJKEBS1 J KEBS ASSOCIATION —COPMIQHT.) (Received December 2, 8.31 p.m.) OTTAWA, December 1. It is understood that Canada recommended to the Imperial transAtlantic airway conference the establishment of an air mail.service between Canada and Ireland, via Newfoundlend, using North Sydney, Nova Scotia, as the Canadian terminus, and Harbour Grace as an intermediate.

At Newfoundland the Canadian experts who examined three possible projects for a trans-Atlantic airway linking Canada and Britain are said to have decided some time ago that the route followed by Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitten Brown when they made the first non-stop Atlantic flight in 1919 would be the most feasible. It is said that a chain of Canadian airports and emergency landing fields, now being constructed from coast to coast, was mapped out on the presumption that North Sydney would be the Canadian terminus.

The other routes considered were via Bermuda and via Greenland, Iceland, and Faroe Islands. It is understood that a method of combating the menace of freezing atmospheric vapour, causing ice on the wings, is being considered by the Canadian Government. It is hoped that this device, which may be evolved this winter, will be of great use in winter flying here. It is believed that the method being considered is to divert the engine exhaust along the edge of the wing. The vapours would then escape in a hot film over the wing surface.