Trans-Atlantic

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 283, 3 December 1935, Page 7

Trans-Atlantic

PROPOSED AIR SERVICE DEFINITE PROGRESS MADE | [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] I Received Dec. 2, 9.30 p.m. OTTAWA, Dec. 1. It is understood that Canada has reconfmended to the Imperial transAtlantic Airway Conference the establishment of an air mail service between Canada and Ireland via Newfoundland, using North Sydney, Nova Scotia, as the Canadian terminus, and Harbour Grace as an intermediate stop. The Canadian experts who examined three possible projects for a trans- . Atlantic airway linking Canada and Britain, are said to have decided some time ago that the route followed by Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Brown, when they flew the Atlantic in 1919, would be the most feasible. It is said that a chain of Canadian, airports and emergency landing fields is being ’constructed from coast to coast, launched on %he presumption that North Sydney would be the Canadian terminus. Other routes considered were via Bermuda and via Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. It is understood that a method of combating the menace £>f freezing atmospheric vapour, causing ice on the wings, is being considered by the Canadian Government with hopes that it will be evolved this winter. It is believed that the method being considered is to divert the engine exhaust along the wing edge, whence the va- ■ pours will escape in a hot film over the wing surface.