AFRICA AIR LINER
Close of First Long Flight British Wireless. Rugby, March 19. The first air mail liner from Central Africa to Great Britain arrived at Croydon this afternoon at scheduled time, having covered 5114 miles in 9 days, saving 23 days as compared with surface transport. The first stages of the flight, from Mwanza, Tanganyika, to Khartum, was covered by the Imperial Airways flying-boat City of Khartum. At Khartum the mail was transferred to a' land plane, and flown to Cairo, where it was joined by the London-bound Indian air mail. A second flying-boat was used on the stage from Cairo to Athens across the Mediterranean, and the journey home was completed by ordinary air liner. About 54,000 letters were delivered from the liner.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 150, 21 March 1931, Page 7
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125AFRICA AIR LINER Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 150, 21 March 1931, Page 7
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