AERIAL MAILS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 94, 15 January 1929, Page 9

AERIAL MAILS

LONDON TO INDIA ROUTE TO BE OPENED IN APRIL A SIX-DAY JOURNEY (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, January 13. Imperial Airways will open in April 5000 miles of Empire mail route, bringing India within six days of London. The journey will lie made in dally stages. Passengers and mails, leaving' London on the morning of the first day by a Handley Page Napier air liner, will fly to Basle. There they will take train under the Alps to Genoa, where on the second day they will embark on all-metal flying boats and cross the Mediterranean to Cairo. That flight will take two days. The flight across the desert from Cairo l» Basra, via Bagdad, will be made on the fourth day, while the journey down the Persian Gulf to Karachi will take the remaining two days. It is proposed to extend the route across India to Calcutta, and then via Singapore to Australia. A branch line from Cape Town will ultimately connect with the main line at Cairo. CENTRAL AMERICAN AIR MAIL ROUTE LINDBERGH BLAZING THE TRAIL New York, January 11. Colonel Lindbergh has announced that on February 4 he will be starting on a protracted Central American cruise in a twin-motored Sikorsky amphibian, carrying mails from Miami to Cristobal, in the Panama Canal zone. He will be blazing a trail for an air mail route to be inaugurated by Pan-American Airways. Incorporated. He ■ also announced that he would henceforth be technical adviser to the latter organisation and its affiliated operating companies. GRAF ZEPPELIN'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Oslo, January 12. Dr. Nansen has left for America to secure support for an Arctic expedition for the Graf Zeppelin in 1930. [On November 27 it was announced that Captain Eckener and Dr. Nansen had decided that'the Graf. Zeppelin’s Polar flight should be carried .out under the auspices of the German AeroArctic Society, which proposes two preparatory Arctic flights in 1929, followed by a thorough expedition in 1930. The flight is expected to last ten days. Captain Bruhns and Professor Filllnger will be lowered when the Zeppelin is over the Pole and make scientific observations.]