LANCASTRIAN IN SYDNEY
Rec. 9 a.m. SYDNEY, April 17. lhe first Lancastrian airliner in the London to Sydney express air-mail service reached Sydney today, having taken 58 hours 12 minutes' flying time from England. The airliner is the first oi a night of five Lancastrians ordered by Qantas Empire Airways, Ltd., to maintain a regular 70-hour service be- ™ Sydney and London. * Pis L _ancastrian is the civil version oi the Lancaster bomber. It has a speed of 272 miles an hour at 21,000
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 91, 18 April 1945, Page 5
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