FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15975, 18 November 1919, Page 5

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

ROSS SMITH ARRIVES AT ROME,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received November IS, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, November 17. Aviator Captain Ross Smith has arrived at Rome.

FLIGHT ACROSS AMERICA, Received November 18, 10.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, November 17. Maynard, winner of the. trans-Conti-nental air race, plans to fly across the Continent with a single stop. CIVIL AVIATION, AN INTERESTING REVIEW. Received November 18, 10.25 a.m. LONDON, November 15. The Air Ministry reviews the halfyear’s progress in civil aviation, and points out tliat there has been a considerable advance in reconnaissance and development of the Imperial air rentes. The Cairo-Karachi rente will scon be available for civil traffic, the Cairo-Cape route has been surveyed, and a chain of landing-places established, and will be available as an experimental basis at the end of the year. A full reconnaissance of the Indiaz-Australia route has been completed. A return shows 21,000 flights for the half-year. One passenger was in jnred for every 5200 carried. Ihe Ministry established a service of experts in England, who will proceed to investigate an accident on the spot immediately it. is reported. The work hitherto of the Light Department produces a weather may ever six hours, forecasts the weather in various routes, and speed, and direction of the upper wind. The carriage of Continental and Imperial mails promises to bo most important and of regular demands, which serve to develop civil aviation.