Airway to India is Fine Service

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 9

Airway to India is Fine Service

15 DAYS, 10,000 MILES WOMAN MAKES THE TRIP British Official Wireless RUGBY, Monday. Miss Chetwynd, daughter of Lord Chetwynd, vice-chairman of Imperial Airways, Limited, who arrived in London yesterday from Karachi in the first India-England air liner, had never previously entered an airplane. She says the journey was extremely comfortable and interesting, and she had never experienced one moment’s nervousness. She is the first woman to make this particular flight. Sir Vyell Vyvyan, who made the double journey to India and back, covering 10,000 miles in 15 days, said the only trouble he experienced was caused by sandstorms, which even extended to a height of 10,000 feet. The oppressive heat of the Persian Gulf was avoided by flying above it at an altitude of 6,000 feet. The total flying time was 54 hours each way. The Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, also flew about 10,000 miles in 15 days, including several thousand miles over the northern part of the African air route to Capetown. He nearly went as far as Uganda. The new 5,000 miles Imperial Airways route had been opened most auspiciously, said Sir Samuel. The route crosses 13 countries, the machines alighting in India, Baluchistan, Persia, Iraq, Transjordania, Palestine, Egypt, Italian Libya, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, France and England. Three different types of machines are being operated on the route.