POST-WAR FLYING
TO LONDON IN 44 HOURS
The prediction that after the war the actual flying time for commercial air services from Wellington to London would be less that 48 hours was made by the Secretary to the Air Board, Mr. T. A. ©arrow, when addressing members of the Wellington Travel Club. He recently returned from a visit to Canada, where he saw the largest aircraft ever built a plane of 82 tons, capable of .flying from Los Angeles to Berlin and back with a full load of bombs.
■ The actual flying time from New Zealand to London at present, said Mr. Barrow, was about 72 hours. Land planes carrying 30 passengers and flying at 300 miles an hour would be used on the Honolulu-Los Angeles hop on the Pacific route, covering the distance in eight hours. On that basis it would take seven hours from Wellington to Samoa, the same time from Samoa to Honolulu, eight hours from Honolulu to Los Angeles, 10 hours across the American continent, six hours up to St. John, and eight across the Atlantic to. England.
“This makes a total of 44 hours,” said Mr. Barrow. “Aircraft capable of. doing this are in existence and are flying now.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20628, 2 December 1941, Page 10
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