SURVEY FLIGHTS
MOVE TO INAUGURATE NEW SERVICES ENGLAND TO PORTUGAL AND WEST AFRICA. LATER EXTENSION TO SOUTH AMERICA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, October 7. Two important survey flights to Lisbon were successfully completed today by British Airways. These were full scale test flights, preparatory to the inauguration of a regular passenger and mail service between England and Portugal, on the first stage of a new air route to West Africa, which is to be developed by British Airways and will be eventually extended across the Atlantic to South America. Two airliners left Heston at 8.24 a.m. today. One flew direct to Lisbon, landing at 2.53 p.m. For the 1043 mile journey against a head wind of forty miles an hour, the average ground speed was 160 miles per hour. According to a prearranged programme the other liner landed at Bordeaux before proceeding co Lisbon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1938, Page 7
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