AIR SERVICE TO PARIS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 January 1935, Page 6

AIR SERVICE TO PARIS

BRITISH NIGHT EXPERIMENT. NEW AIDS TO SAFETY. LONDON, Dec. 8. More than 1003 passengers have travelled between London and Paris this winter by the Imperial Airways night service . Previously this late service, which enables travellers who leave Paris airport at 6.30 p.m. to reach tlieir London homes before 10 p.m., has been dropped with the cessation in October of summer time. This year it was decided as an experiment to run it during the winter. New “blind” flying instruments which have been added to the navigational equipment of the British air-liners have made this new development possible. Radio between airliner and ground station is also much improved, and the lighting along the London-Paris route is better. All of Imperial Airways pilots have taken courses of instruction, in every branch of instrument. flying in the last few months. There is undoubtedly a great future for night air travel. The air is then usually much less disturbed than during the day, meaning smoother and more comfortable journeys. The night hours are not taken out of working time, and the busy man saves time by flying then. Mails can be vastly accelerated by night flying services. Air travel when darkness reigns is extremely fascinating, for it conveys to the passenger a sense of security and ease which is not surpassed when flyin the finest weather in daytime. The cabin of the airliner, spacious and well-lit, appears as a cosy little world moving without commotion through the air.