MAILS BY ’PLANE.
TWO DAYS SAVED
PARIS, Aug. 24. The lie de France saved two days on the eastward trans-Atlantic mail service by means of an aeroplane shot into tho air at sixty miles an hour 150 miles west of the Scilly Islands. Despite the bad weather the scheme worked excellently, tho ’plane refueling at Cherbourg, from which it proceeded to Paris. An extra charge of twenty pence per letter is made. The scheme will be applied to other French liners. Street.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 229, 25 August 1928, Page 9
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82MAILS BY ’PLANE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 229, 25 August 1928, Page 9
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