EXTENSION OF AIR LINES
GREAT INCREASE IN MILEAGE.
(British Official*'Wireless.)
Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, April 13. During seven years the air liners of the Imperial Airways fleet operating between London and the Continent and on the Empire air routes have flown 8,710,000 miles, carrying 210,000 passengers and. approximately 8000 tons of freight and mails. - The big tripleengined Armstrong Siddeley air liners on the London-Continental services have now flown more than 2,000,000 miles without mishap resulting in injury either to passengers or crew.
In 1019 when British commercial air. services began the daily mileage was less than 500; now Imperial Airways liners and flying boats cover more than 5000 miles daily.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1932, Page 9
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