LONDON TO SYDNEY BY AIR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 5

LONDON TO SYDNEY BY AIR

: . '. 300-MILE STAGES. (Rec. January 8, 8.50 p.m.) London, January 7. The "Daily Chronicle" publishes an interview with Mr. Holt Thomas, Director of the Aircraft Manufacturing Company, whose directorate Major Brancker has just joined. Mr. Holt Thomas says-.—"The air journey to Australia ' can now be done at one hundred (miles per hour, including stoppages. ;-J.ne speed for the world journey will, soon be 130 miles an hour. A single a«™a n would not fly all the way to New South Wales. The first man would go to Paris, and would find another airman waiting there. In five minutee the mail receptacle would be transferred to a second machine, which would .resume the journey. A three-hundred mile trip would be sufficient' for any 'o'no pilot. It will be important-to develop an encoded ' engine to replace- the. present water-cooled engine, which becomes faulty in the tropics and in the Antarctic through water cither boiling or freezing. The trans-Atlantic night should bo accomplished in 1919, but no seaplane could stand tho Atlantic TOll-crs."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.