AIR LINER’S FIRST PARIS FLIGHT
(British Official Wireless) . RUGBY, October 21. The Imperial Airways liner “Ensign,” first of a fleet of 14 of this type, costing £750,000 in all, made its first passenger flight from Croydon to Paris yesterday at an- average speed of 158 miles as hour.
21 YEARS’ CONTINUOUS FLYING (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, October 21. Captain O. P. Junes, one of the Imperial Airways pilots, has just completed a continuous flying career of 21 years. He has crossed the English Channel at the controls of an air liner about 6000 times, and not one. of the 96,000 passengers he has carried has suffered the slightest injury.
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Southland Times, Issue 23647, 24 October 1938, Page 7
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