AVIATION PROGRESS
T AST year 23,900 commercial flights were made across the English Channel and 159,000 passengers were carried. Yet the first cross-channel flight wus made less than 30 years ago! The news of this remarkable traffic is contained in the British Air Ministry's Report 011 the Progress of Civil Aviation, which also reveals that Britmh commercial, 'planes coveroU 10,753,000 miles during the year, 4,200,000 on Empire routes. During the year services within tho British Isles
- covered 3,300,000 miles and carried 161.500 passengers and 1300 tons of goods without a serious accident. There are now about 200 British civil 'planes equipped with wireless, and in 1937 more than 68,000 bearings were given, compared with about 5000 yearly to ships off the coasts of Britain. Crovdon Airport dealt with nearly 40,000 requests for weather information. It is good to be reminded that the aeroplane is making a peaceful progress , in these days when the nations are menacing the world by abusing it. "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23157, 1 October 1938, Page 12 (Supplement)
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161AVIATION PROGRESS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23157, 1 October 1938, Page 12 (Supplement)
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