EMPIRE AIR ROUTES
ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, SYDNEY, January 19. (Received January 19, at 9 a.m.) Sir Walter Nicholson, a director of Imperial Airways, is visiting Australia in connection with the proposal to allow Imperial Airways to continue the London-lndia air service to Australia. He said he intended to ascertain whether the Commonwealth Government would provide a subsidy, without which the Karachi-Australia link was impossible. He is returning to England later via New Zealand.
GIANT FLYING BOAT.
CONTRACT CANCELLED,
LONDON, January 18. (Received January 19, at 11.15 a.m.) On the grounds of economy the Air Ministry has cancelled the contract for the flying boat, and work has ceased. [A previous message stated: _ The largest flying boat in the world is being built at Vickers factory to the order of the Air Ministry. It is a six-engined wonder, and eclipses Germany’s pride, the Do.X. The Vickers boat resembles a_ monster fish with a tail high up in the air, tapering to an enormous belly, and ending in a huge blunt nose, which is also in the air. Only the belly will be in the water, enabling the liner to ride the heaviest waves. The will be out of reach of even mountainous sens. The equipment includes restaurants t baths, and sleeping berths.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 7
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213EMPIRE AIR ROUTES Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 7
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