FAST TRAVELLING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 July 1927, Page 11

FAST TRAVELLING.

ROUND THE WORLD IN TEN DAYS

TjLYR sooner than sceptics think, you **■ will be able to walk into the booking hall at the London Air Station, Croydon, and say: “An air ticket round the world, please,” writes Harry Harper in the “Daily Mail.” Starting from London early in the morning, you will fly to Berlin by evening and continue by night ’plane to Ivonigsberg. Here you "will change to a big longrange air express, fitted with a buffet and sleeping berth for the stages via Moscow to Peking—which is. reached in GO hours from London. After this the air line carries you to Tokio, where you embark iu a giant ocean-going airship for a 90-hours voyage above tne Pacific to San Francisco. Then a super-speed aeroplane wafts you in 30 hours to New York. Here, changing to another vast airship, as luxuriously appointed as the finest ocean liner, you fly in 60 hours to London, having completed your world-circling journey in just over 10 days.

Bv a longer central route, should you prefer this, you will fly from London via Paris to Constantinople in a beautifully appointed Orient air express. Here a change will be made into a ’plane for Cairo, the aerial Clapham Junction of the East. After this one of the Empire ’planes of Imperial Airways bears you over that picturesque route to Bagdad and Karachi, the organisation of which has proved one of the romances of airway engineering. Another stage, via Delhi, speeds you above India to Calcutta. Here you find a great multi-coloured flying boat, fitted up internally like a sea-going ship. In this vou continue via Rangoon and Singapore to Port Darwin, on the coast of Australia. At this point there will be a connection with one of the ’planes of the Australian airwavs, which bears you rapidly to Melbourne, your aerial journey from London having occupied not more than 130 hours, or just over five days. The next air-link takes the form of a 20 hours ’ journey by flying boat to Auckland, New Zealand, where you enter a. huge long-range airship, equipped with lounge, dining-room, and promenade, in which it will be possible to dance as the great machine cleaves the air. In this flying hotel you pass across the Pacific to Panama. On arrival there you change to a big air boat for a coastal trip to Pernambuco, where there is to be a station for the airship services across the South Atlantic. In about sixty hours you complete an aerial voyage to Seville, Spain, where another main airship station is now in process of erection. From here, connecting with the airship service, are to fly fast passenger ’planes, and in one of these you speed back to London, having completed a world air trip in not more than 17 da vs.