A Tour by Air
* SPEED OF MODERN TRAVEIn a 12 week's trip abroad, Sir William Hunt, who returned to Wellington recently, spent two weeks and a half in Australia, five weeks and a half in England, and saw 16 different countries (states the 'Dominion'). This was made possible by the u*o of air travel; he Hew all the way from Australia to England and back. He liad the unusual experience of having' breakfast in Alexandria and supper i«i London. Sir William spoke enthusiastically about the new Imperial Airways flying boats on the service between Alexandria, and England. The trip of 2.258 miles was covered in iG hours 25 minutes, and calls were made at Alliens, Brindisi, Rome, and Marseilles. Twenty-five passengers and a erew of five were carried, and there was no more noise in the cabins than in a railway carriage. Sir William s;iid the machines were really wonderful. They were being introduced to Australia, and there seemed, no reason why the\ should not be used in the proposed service across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3481, 9 August 1937, Page 5
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