World's Longest Airmail
8000-MILE JOURNEY DT ELEVEN DAYS British Official Wireless. Received Thursday, 9.50 p.m. RUGBY, Jan. 21. Shortly after mid-day to-day ono of the great four-engined land planes of Imperial Airways took oil - from Croydon, carrying bags of mail which will reach Capetown, SOOO miles distant, in eleven days. This inauguration of the Capo air mail marked a new and important stage in air\ communications, which have been steadily developed during the last eight years. The new route wiil not be open for regular passenger traffic until March, but Colonel Bertram (dcputy-Director of Civil Aviation) and Sir Wyell Vyvyan were travelling on the service to-day. The new route is the longest organised air line in the world, and it means that difficulties have been overcome throughout the length of Africa during its organisation. Deserts and swamps in tho north, rapids on the Nile, high altitudes and high temperatures near the Equator, forest and bush country, and liability to violent storms make this airway one of tho most trying to prepare for commercial operation.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6763, 22 January 1932, Page 6
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