PARIS-LONDON AIR MAIL

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4578, 2 May 1922, Page 2

PARIS-LONDON AIR MAIL

PROPOSED NIGHT SERVICE Arrangements have been made for the lighting of the Paris-London airway; signals have been arranged in France at Le Bourgot, Beauvais, Poix, Abbeville, Berek, and St. Inglevort, and it was hoped that the night service may begin this month. Aeroplanes will leave Lc Bonrget and Croydon at 8 p.m., and should arrive about 11p.m. M. Rene Labouehere, French pilot, who is to inaugurate, tlio experiment, considers that the journev should present no ; /difficulties if there are sufficient, luminous signals. Over the sea the Channel lights will be o ftho greatest use, in addition to the special signals arranged for, aeroplanes. , ,',*., M. Labouehere admits that thick fog may render the service difficut, but his recent experiences with fog between Paris and Lausanne have shown that, in spite of unfavourable atmospheric conditions, air voyages can now bo accomplished without accident. Ho believes that the public will travel with as much confidence by night as by day, and suggests that it will not bo long before there are "sleeping-car" aeroplanes, with couchettes (bunks). One of the greatest advantages of the new service will be the increased rapidity of the service, as letters posted up to < p.m. in Paris will b.eS delivered by the first post in London.