CROSSING THE CHANNEL
FAST SEAPLANE SERVICE. BETWEEN CALAIS AND DOVER. RUN BY FRENCH COMPANY. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 2.5 p.m. to-day. PARIS, May IS. The Campagnic Aerienne Francaiso has been authorised to run a seaplane service with a terminous at Calais dock and the other at Dover harbour, to connect with boat trains. The crossing will take fifteen minutes, in which, an official points out, there is no time to he either sea sick or air sick. The fleet in the first place will consist of four or five small ’planes carrying two .or three passengers. It may later be increased. Special trains will be run to connect with the service which is expected to start on July 15.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 May 1928, Page 9
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124CROSSING THE CHANNEL Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 May 1928, Page 9
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