AVIATION.
AN INTERESTING REPORT. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) Received Last Night, 5.. r > o'clock. LONDON," Dec. 10. The Controller-General of Civil Aviation states that the aggregate machine mileage in commercial flying has been over a million miles since May, 1919. The passengers carried have numbered 32,315. Regular night flying has not been attempted, hut the experimental lighthouse at Croydon has been successful, and others are being built. The use of wireless telephones was being extended. In connection with Imperial air routes, a new aerodrome was being built at Malta. Wireless communication was being assured between England and Egypt. The report gives details of recent aviation developments in Australia and New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Age, 13 December 1920, Page 5
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