COMMERCIAL AVIATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 17 April 1928, Page 5

COMMERCIAL AVIATION

AMERICA IN THE LEAD

tJniteil Press Association—By Electric Telegfaph—Copyright Australian Press Association

NEW YORK, 15th April

According to the Aircraft Year Rook for 1928, just issued bv tln* Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, American commercial airplanes flew 12.500.000 miles, carried 500.000 passengers and 2.600,000 pounds of freight, easily winning the commercial aviation leadership.

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United Service,

(Received 17th April, 9.10 a.m.) VANCOUVER, 16th April. In dedicating two powerful beacons established c.n Sunday night at the central anil the southern California coast. Lindbergh pressed a telegraph key at Denver. Colorado, where he landed for an hour on route to the east. Mr W. E. Boeing, head of the Air Transport Comparer, Seattle, at a later function, predicted that in a short time an aeroplane passenger would be able to telephone by radio and long distance telephone to any part of the United Slates while on route. He said that the United States had 4000 aeroplanes in service, and factory orders indicated that this would be increased to 8000 by tlie end of the year.

CIVIL AVIATION IN GERMANY

RAPID PR OH RESS

(Rereived 17tli April. 1 p.m.) BERLIN, 16th April

The Lufthansa summer time table is commencing on 23rd April, when the company's planes will In* (lying almost 40,000 miles daily. Every im porlant Herman town will be connected by aeroplane, which proves iliat Uerninnv is still supreme in civil aviation. She'is seizing every opportunity of development in educating the people that air travel is vnstlv preferable to tram. Berlin is now linked with every European capital except Warsaw, and is shortly inaugurating Sunday services between Berlin and Baris and elsewhere. Several new night services throughout- Germany have been inaugurated, also several freighters which do nm carry passengers. A'special summer feature will bo weekend trips to popular seaside resorts on the Baltic and the TJorth Seas.