AVIATION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 63, 1 March 1929, Page 5

AVIATION

GERMANY’S STRIKING PROGRESS ORGANISED AIR ROUTES. NETWORK OF INVISIBLE LINES. (United Preu Auoclation—By Cable— Copyright.) [United Service.) (Received 1, 9.5 a.m.) London, Feb. 28. “No country in Europe has built up a finer ground organisation for the purposes of aviation than Germany,’’ says the “Daily Mail’s ' special investigator. “Germany now possesses 32 specially equipped aeroplane harbours and 66 officially recognised landing places, from all of which petrol is obtainable and repairs are done and to all of which weather reports are wirelessed from Berlin. At other centres aeroplanes come and go on a network ot invisible lines with the regularity of railway trains. The times of departure and arrival fill more than 100 sections of the summer time-table. It will soon be difficult to find a place of any importance in Germany to which it will be impossible to travel by air. “A special company has been formed to illuminate the night flying routes, whictf include Berlin, Konigsberg, Berlin, and Hanover. Airhansa is receiving directly and indirectly £2,000,000 fsom the Reich and controls most of the 27 principal air lines, but there are 46 other companies with passenger and freightcarrying rights. Eighteen firms are engaged in aeroplane making. “Berlin has a school for training civil pilots and there are eleven other institutes in different parts of Germany for teaching flying.” PLANE CRASBf IN INDO-CHINA. I Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 1, 9.55 a.m.) Delhi, Feb. 28. The French long-distance fliers, when in Indo-China. 100 miles from Rangoon, crashed in flames in a swamp. Le Brix and the mechanic, Jousse, were slightly injured. The mails were salved by villagers.