SPEEDY AIR TRAVEL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 353, 9 September 1933, Page 3

SPEEDY AIR TRAVEL

A Few Days to Australia London, Aug. 29. A week-end spent in Cairo will soon be practicable, and the journey to Australia will take only a few days, declared Sir Alan Cobham at a display at the Plymouth municipal aerodrome. Several companies, English and American, were exploring the possibilities of a regular transatlantic service, said Sir Alan, and he believed that they would be in operation within the next year or SO. The fares would not exceed firstclass shipping rates. Flying boats would be employed, starting from Plymouth, Falmount or Southampton.

London, Aug. 29.

Having inspected the Hawker Harts (two-seater general purpose biplanes) and the Hawker Furies (250 miles an hour fighters), with which the Royal Australian Air Force is to be re-equip-ped, Flight-Lieutenant Slurt Griffiths, an officer of the Citizens' Air Force, Richmond, now in London, tells of marvellous machines whose speed, general Utility and handling in the air are vastly superior to the existing Wapitis and Bulldogs. The Harts, says the officer, did the same work as the Wapitis 50 miles an hour faster, and had a marvellous "climb."

Having obtained a year's leave from his Australian unit, Flight-Lieutenant Sturt Griffiths intends to inspect leading European air forces. In England he has already visited Tangmere aerodrome, home of one of the Royal Air Force fighting squadrons, the flying-boat stations at Calshot and the special test squadron, at Farnborough.