PARIS-LONDON AIR MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18078, 1 May 1922, Page 6

PARIS-LONDON AIR MAIL.

PROPOSED NIGHT SERVICE.!

Arrangements have been made for the lighting; of tbo Paris-London airway; signals have been arranged in France at L e Bourget, Beauvais, Poix, Abbeville, Berck, and St. Inglovert, and it was hoped Unit the night service may begin this month. Aeroplane? will leave Lo Bourget and Croydon at 8 p.m., and" should arrive about 11 p.m. M. Reno Labouchere, the French pilot, who is to inaugurate the experiment, considers that the journey should present no difficulties I if there are sufficient luminous signals. Over the sea the Channel lights will be of the greatest use. in addition to tho special signals arranged for aeroplanes M. Labouchere admits that thick foe may render the a, -vico difficult but his recent experiences with fog ' between Paris and Lausanne have shown that in spite of unfavourable atmospheric conditions, air voyages can now be accomplished without accident. He believes that the public will travel with as much confidence by night as by day, and eurgests that it will not be long before there ar e "sleeping-car" aeroplanes, with couched (bunks). One of th e greatest advantages of the new service wi'l be the increased rapidity of the postal service as posted up to ? p.aa. in Paris will ta Slivered by tbo fixsfc post « London.