BRITISH AIRWAYS.
BIG EXTENSIONS LIKELY.
ALL RED MAIL PLANES
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, May 7,
The Daily Chronicle states that following upon the settlement of the airways strike a new company is organising extensions of the air-lines link by link, which will result in all All Red mail-planes, goods-plains and aerial waggonettes travelling regularly between London and Australia.
Giant planes are being built of metal throughout, with all the latest weightsaving devices. Meanwhile an expert survey of the airway to Sydney is being made. It will be composed of eleven stations Malta, Cairo Baghdad, Karachi, Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore, North Borneo, New Guinea, Port Darwin, Sydney. It is estimated that at express service the thirteen thousand miles will occupy 132 hours. The planes will re-fuel in mid-air by means" of winged tankers rising from stations.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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