FAST TRAVELLING

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 20

FAST TRAVELLING

BOUND THE "WOBLD IN TEN DAYS.

Far sooner than sceptics think you will be able to walk into the bookinghall at the London Air Station, Croydon, and say: "An ail- ticket round the world, please," writes Harry Harper in the "Daily Mail." Starting from London early in the morning, you will fly to Berlin by evening and continue by night-plane to Konigsberg. Here you change to a big long-range air express, fitted with a buffet and sleeping berth for the stages via Moscow to Pekin—which is reached in 60 hours fro'in London. After this the air line carries you to Tokio, where you embark in a giant ocean-going airship for a 90-hours voyage above the Pacific to San Francisco. Then a super-speed aeroplano wafts you in 30 hours to New York. Here, changing to another vast airship as luxuriously appointed as the finest ocean liner, you fly in 60 hours to London, having completed your world-cir-cling journey in just over ten days. Bather different this from the SO days of Mr. Fogg, Jules Verne's famous travelleri

By a longer central route, should you prefer this, you will fly from London via Paris to Constantinople in a beautifully appointed Orient air express Here a change will bo mado into a plane for Cairo,, tho aerial Clapham Junction of tho East. After this one of tho Empire 'planes of Imperial Airway* bears you over that picturcsquo route to Bagdad and Karachi, tho organisation of which has proved ono of the romances of airway engineering. Another stago, via Delhi,, speeds you above India to Calcutta. Hero you find

a great multi-coloured flying boat, fitted up internally like a sea-going ship. In this you continue via Eangoon and Singapore to Port Darwin, on the coast of Australia. At this point there will be a connection with ono of the 'planes of tho Australian airways, which bears you rapidly to Melbourne, your aerial journey from London having occupied not more than 130 hours, or just over five days.

The next air-link takes the form of a 20 hours' journey by flying-boat to Auckland, New Zealand, where you enter a huge long-range airship, equipped with lounge, dining-room, and promenade, in which it will be possible to dance as the great machine cleaves the air. In thia flying hotel you pass across the Pacific to Panama. On arrival there you change to a big airboat for a coastal trip to Pernambuco, where there' is to be a station for tjie airship services across the South Atlantic.

One of these Hnerß of the sky, smoothflying and vibrationless, is ready to ascend as soon as you go aboard, and in about 60 hours you complete an aerial voyago to Seville, Spain, where another main airship station is now in process of ■ erection. From here, connecting with the airship service, are to fly fast passenger 'planes, and in one^ of these you speed back to London, having completed a world air-trip in not .mo™ than, seventeen days.