TEA IN THE AT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19829, 2 May 1927, Page 7

TEA IN THE AT

LONDON S NEW CRAZE First Afternoon Pleasure Trip a Success GIANT PLANE USED [By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—CopyrilM.) Received May 1, 6 p.m. (A and N.Z.) LONDON, April 30. * ‘ Whisky, sir?’ ’ said an agile steward in a spic and span white jacket and white peaked cap, standing on a blue pile carpeted corridor of a giant plane. He was balancing a salver containing bottles, glasses, and syphon, while London, 4000 feet below, was bathed in spring sunshine. It was the * ‘City of Glasgow,’’ one of the four new triple-engined “Silver Wing” air liners, engaged in the first of the afternoon tea pleasure trips over London, arranged under the auspice* of Imperial Airways Ltd. The aerial waiter had thoroughly mastered his air legs, and walked briskly up and down the gangway, ministering to the needs of the passengers. It is a striking commentary on the vast strides of civil flying e SEEKING SAFETY AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEST. BIG PRIZES OFFERED. Received May 1, 7 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) NEW YORK, April 30. The Guggenheim Fund, for the pro motion of Aeronautics, has announced tha. it will award six prizes, ono ol 100,000 dollars and five of 10,000 dollars each, in an airplane contest designed pure.y to promote safe.y in aviation. Entries will bo received until October 31, 1929, and tests will be conducted from tmo to time through the intervening period. Easy power of manoeuvring will be the chief criterion.