AERIAL DEVELOPMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19008, 8 May 1924, Page 5

AERIAL DEVELOPMENT

ALL-RED SERVICE, LONDON TO SYDNEY COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMME. PASSENGERS, MAILfe AND GOODS. Received May 8, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 7. The Daily Chronicle states that following upon the settlement of the airmen's strike, a new company is organising extensions of airlines which, link by link,, will result in All-Red mail planes, goods planes, and aerial wagonlits travelling regularly between London and Australia. Giant planes are being built of metal throughout, with all the latest weight-saving devices. Meanwhile an expert survey of the airway to Sydney is being made, composed of eleven stations—Malta, Cairo. Bagdad, Karachi, Calcutta. Rangoon. Singapore, North Borneo, New Guinea, Port Darwin, and Sydney. It Is estimated that an express service of thirteen thousand miles will occupy 131 J hours. The plans include refuelling in mid-air by means of wiinged tankers rising from the stations. GYROSCOPIC HELICOPTER A SUCCESSFUL TRIAL. Received May 7, 5.5 p.m. PARIS, May 7. De Michen accomplished a flight of a circular kilometre on a gyroscopic helicopter, occupying 7A- minutes, and landed at the starting point without difficulty. AN AFTER THEATRE SERVICE LONDON, May 6. The Imperial Company at Croydon is acquiring huge night-flying aerial sleeping cars for the purpose of establishing an after-theatre service between London ad Paris. This will enable parties to leave London late in the afternoon, dine and attend the theatre in Paris, and return to London the same night. It wll also enable Parisians to do the same in respect to London theatres. Anglo-French business mon will be able to return to their homes the same neigh,t, after commercial dinners. The company realises that only by night flying and carriage of midnight mails can the airway be made to pay.