EMPIRE AIR ROUTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21265, 20 February 1931, Page 9

EMPIRE AIR ROUTES

THE LATEST ADDITION. BRITAIN TO SOUTH AFRICA. (British Official Wireless.) (United Prose Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 18. The first time table for the North African section of the 8000 miles Imperial Airways’ Britain to South Africa route, which will be opened on February 28, was issued to-day. This addition to the Empire air routes extends for 2070 miles from Cairo along the Nile to Khartoum, and thence via the great lakes to Mwanza, in Tanganyika, and will connect Britain by air with the Sudan and Central and Eastern Africa, and bring India, Persia, and Iraq into direct air communication with North-Eastern Africa. Specially designed air liners and flying boats built in Britain have been flown to Africa for use on this route.

From Cairo to Khartoum the service will be operated by triple-screw Armstrong Siddeley air liners, and from Khartoum onwards into the heart of Africa by great short all-metal flying boats, each driven by three Jupiter engines developing a total of 1500 h.p. The flying boats will use the rivers and great lakes along the route as natural alighting areas.