AIRWAYS RIVALRY
PRESTIGE IN PACIFIC BRITAIN AND AMERICA LONDON, Oct.. 9 "A grim, if peaceful, war for world domination in commercial aviation haft started," says the aviation journal Flight. It refers, particularly, to AngloAmerican competition in world-girdling air routes. The importance of sucii a girdle round the world in the matter of prestige cannot he overestimated, says Flight, hut prestige has to be paid for, and the cost may be more staggering than is generally realised. Australia, it adds, is in a peculiar position. It is just a little disturbing to contemplate Pan American Airways' plans for operating a regular service to Auckland at the end of 1937. That service/ which is not likely to show financial returns for many years, will establish American prestige, and will have to be countered by Britain in some .way. The most obvious, and certainly one of the likeliest to succeed, is to go one better in frequency of service and speed on the'route to Australia. With their cruising speed of 100 miles an hour, and their remarkable comfort for passengers, the Empire flying-boats will do all that is necessary for the moment, but .already there are signs that they will prove inadequate in a very few years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22864, 20 October 1937, Page 15
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