EMPIRE AIR ROUTES
COMMERCIAL SERVICES FIVE THOUSAND MILES A DAY (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, April 13. During the past seven years air liners ot the Imperial Airways fleet operating between London and the Continent and oh Empire air routes have flown 8,710,000 miles and carried 210,000 passengers and approximately 8,000 tons of freight and mails. The big triple-engined Armstrong-Siddeley air liners on the London-Continental services have now flown move than 2,000,000 miles without a mishap that resulted in the injury either to passengers or crew'. In 1919, when the British commercial air services began, the daily mileage was less than 500. while how Imperial Airways liners and Hying boats cover move than 5,000 miles d day.
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Evening Star, Issue 21078, 15 April 1932, Page 9
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119EMPIRE AIR ROUTES Evening Star, Issue 21078, 15 April 1932, Page 9
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