CAIRO TO CAPE
.REGULAR AIR MAIL ROUTE ELABORATE ORGANISATION
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 17th December. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, the Under-Secretary for Air, Mr. Frederick Montague, stated that negotiations were completed for a regular air-mail route from Cairo to the Cape. The northern section probably would begin to operate in February. The Cairo-Cape airway, is heralded in commercial air circles as an outstanding enterprise, and the linking with the Indian air-mail service will reduce the transit time between London and Cape Town to eleven days. The ground organisation along the route measuring 5700 miles, involving the establishment of 27 air stations with hangars, wireless, weather offices, staff quarters, and —in some cases — hotels, also 30 intermediate landing grounds, is being developed rapidly.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 11
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127CAIRO TO CAPE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 11
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