AIR SERVICE TO N.Z

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 198, 20 July 1935, Page 7

AIR SERVICE TO N.Z

USE OF FLYING BOATS URGED. Plans have already been made for tlie use of two Hying boats to leave England each week for Australia and New Zealand in 1937, says a London message. The boats will descend on the Euphrates, the Persian Gulf and the North Indian lakes, but it is emphasised that, even if they are forced down, it is safer than with land aeroplanes, because the hull acts as a skid, ensuring the safety of the passengers and the machine, whereas, although passengers may he rescued, land aeroplanes are lost if forced down at sea. It will therefore lie practicable for boats on the way to Sydney to descend in the Gulf of Carpentaria and then go overland in a south-easterly direction. The increased services will he accompanied by an important change in Imperial Airways’ policy, as the machines leaving England will continue to Australia, because tlie dispatching of mails by air will eliminate the small loads at present preventing the profitable utilisation of big machines on the final stages.