EMPIRE AIR ROUTES
QUESTION OF MORE CENTRAL BASE \ • ——— ■ IS CAIRO PREFERABLE TO CROYDON ? Australian Press Association. . London, ’March 3. Interviewed by the "Daily Express," Mr. F. E. Guest, a former Air Minister, who has returned from a survey of North Africa, suggests that Cairo instead of Croydon should be the Imperial centre for commercial aviation The-Europeal 'eather al present is the greatest menace to the success of the air routes to Australia, India, and the Cape. He realised this on the re cent flight, and said that never again would he attempt to fly from Britain to Egypt. Croydon is on the rim of the Empire, whereas Cairo ■ is situated -in perfect•>flying country-and,is the heart of projected Empire routes.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 11
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119EMPIRE AIR ROUTES Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 11
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