AIR-LANE OF LIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 388, 23 June 1928, Page 10

AIR-LANE OF LIGHT

CALAIS TO MARSEILLES The French authorities are making progress -with the task of lighting up the airway from Calais to Marseilles, via Paris, Dijon and Lyons, in order that a night service of planes from London to Marseilles may start this month. The section between Calais and Paris is already complete via Berck. Abbeville, Poix and Beauvais. With the placing of funds at the disposal of the air authorities, work has been in progress on the section from Paris to Marseilles. When completed, the Calais-Mar-seilles airway will be the mot brilliantly lighted of any in Europe. At high points all along the route will be aerial lighthouses, with revolving lights, visible for scores of miles. Between the lighthouses there will be intermediary red non-i'evolving lights to guide the airmen in dull weather. It is expected that the night service will leave Croydon somewhere about 0 p.m.. reaching Paris at 11.30 p.m. and Marseilles between 5 and 6 o'clock next morning. From Marseilles seaplanes will go to Algeria, and eventually, it is hoped, to Rome and the Near East.