MORE SPEEDY FLIGHTS
CROYDON TO AUSTRALIA DUTCH COMPANY'S PLANS [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Feb. 9 A twice-weekly service between Croydon and Australia, taking three and a-half days, will be introduced by K.L.M. Royal Dutch Air Lines early in 1940. Orders have been placed with the Douglas Aircraft Company of America for six new 30-ton D.C.4 air liners for use on the service. The present time taken for the journey is just over eight days, against nine and a-half days by Imperial Airways, The liners are four-engined lowwinged monoplanes with a cruising speed of 200 miles an hour. They are the largest air liners in the world. They will have accommodation for 42 passengers, but when in service on the Australian route they will fly night and day and will be fitted as sky-sleeper aeroplanes and have beds for 24 passengers. There will also be a honeymoon suite. AH meals will bo served on hoard from an electric kitchen. . -v The new aircraft are to be flown over the Atlantic to Amsterdam. Commander K. D. Parmentier, K.L.M.'s chief test pilot, is to fly the first machine to Holland in April next year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23284, 1 March 1939, Page 13
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