AIR LINE ACROSS CANADA

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 12

AIR LINE ACROSS CANADA

Lockheecls to Operate SERVICE TO START BY CHRISTMAS For many years the Canadian Government has visualised a coast-to-coast air line providing direct connections across that Dominion and with Imperial Airways’, England-Asia route. It was announced recently that the Canadian Government had ordered a fleet of Lockheed monoplanes for the Vancouver-Halifax service, and it is hoped to have the line operating by Christmas. With its introduction the line will link Europe, Asia and North America with regular air schedules. The Winnipeg-Vancouver service will be opened iu September next, and before the end of this year the line will be extended to Montreal and Halifax, where connections will be made with the trans-Atlantic service. Westward from Winnipeg the planes will fly a 16hour schedule to British Columbia with stops at Brandon, Regina, Moose Jaw, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Crow’s Nest Pass, Cranbrook and Princeton. At Lethbridge a feeder line will be operated northward to Calgary’ and Edmonton. To ensure safety on the entire route across Canada 92 emergency landing fields have been built. Each field has been equipped with lights of all types, weather service, telephones and runways of more than 3500 feet in any direction. Night flights are to be inaugurated immediately in the Mon-treal-Vancouver section with radio beam stations guiding the pilots, as well as revolving beacons and radio marking beacons. Four Lockheed “14’s” and three Electras will operate over the route. The Electras will have a cruising speed of 195 miles an hour and the larger “14’s” will cruise at 225 miles an hour. The latter machines have a top speed of 250 miles an hour.