IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA MONOPLANE'S PROGRESS SURVEY PARTY ON BOARD MAPPING OUT THE ROUTE By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright i (Received June 14, 10.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 14 The Imperial Airways monoplane Astrea, which is being used in a survey of the air route from England to Australia, is expected to arrive in Sydney within a week. The limor Sea is to bo crossed about Friday. Major H. G. Brackley, air superintendent of Imperial Airways, Limited, left Croydon in the Astrea on Monday, May 29' The machine is a new fourengined Armstrong-Siddeloy monoplane of the Atalanta class, with a cruising epeed of 130 miles an hour. It will operate eventually on the SingaporeKarachi section, but will take up tho running on the Rangoon-Calcutta-Kara-chi section, which is to bo opened on October 1. It will carry the Christmas mail to Singapore. The crew of the Astrea includes Lapta:n -R- Prendergast, Messrs. C. Griffiths, W. J. Brown (radio operator), and W. E. Hickman, an Arm-strong-Siddeley engineer. The machine reached Calcutta en route to Darwin on June 9.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21518, 15 June 1933, Page 12
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