TRANS-ATLANTIC AIRWAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18879, 3 December 1935, Page 7

TRANS-ATLANTIC AIRWAY

CHOICE OP ROUTES CANADIAN SUGGESTIONS -•■■'-'.- ' OTTAWA, Dec. 1. It is understood that the Canadian Government has recommended to the Imperial trans-Atlantic airway conference the establishment of an air mail service between Canada and Ireland via Newfoundland, using North Sydney, Nova Scotia, as the Canadian terminus, and Harbor Grace as an intermediate ston at Newfoundland.

Canadian experts who examined threepossible projects for a trans-Atlantic airway linking Canada and Britain, are said ;. to have "decided some time ago that the route followed by Sir John Alcoek and Sir Arthur Brown, when they new the. Atlantic in 1919, would be the most feasible. It is said that a chain of Canadian airports and. emergency landing fields is being constructed from coast to coast, launched on the presumption that North Sydney would be the Canadian terminus.

Other routes considered' were via Bermuda and via Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands

It is understood that the method of combating the menace of the freezing atmosphere vapour, causing ice on the wings, is being considered by the Canadian Government, with hopes that a solution will be evolved, this winter. It is believed that the method being considered is to divert the engine exhaust along the wing edge, whence the vapours will escape in a hot film over the wing surface.