AIR ROUTE TO INDIA
“COMMERCIALLY POSSIBLE.” EXPERT’S CONCLUSION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, March 13. General Sir Seiton Brancker and Mr Alan Cubham have arrived at Croydon, completing an aerial tour of 17,000 miles to and from Burma for the purpose ol' investigating new air routes. The machine and engine were unchanged throughout. General Brancker expressed the opinion that the air route to India was commercially possible, and only a matter of time and money. General Brancker, Chief of the British Air Service, and Mr Cobham, leadiim- long-distance pilot, flew from Croydon to Burma, and back via Constantinople Mr Cobham, in India, took an air survey of the Everest Group m the Himalayas.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12094, 23 March 1925, Page 3
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