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Crew of the Air-Pioneering
THE CHINA MAIL,
EST 14, 1937.
nia After Arrival
donia
Pictured just after their arrival in Montreal from Southampton are mander G. P. Edward, chief of air services, TH. Vallette, radio officer members of the crew of the British Imperial Airways seaplane Caledonia, Capt. A. S. Wilcockson, skipper of the Caledonia, S. J. Hungerford, of giant flying boat which blazed the westbound trail for passenger service trans-Canada Airlines; Charles E. Bowes, first officer; T. H. Hobbs, radio between England and the United States. Left to right, the men are: Com-operator, and J. A. Wilson, controller of civilian aviation for Canada.
DEVELOPMENT OF K.L.M. TRAFFIC
The specially good results ob-, transport of freight. And what is tained in the last weeks on the K. Lalso very remarkable is the fact that M's Amsterdam-Batavia” route are the sale of the loading capacity of largely due to the material by which the machines increased to 81.2%.'. the service has been operated twice The following figures help in weekly since the 5th of June, when illustrate the recent development of the new Douglas DC 3 fleet was put the traffic on the India route The into service. For the first time the amount of letter mail on the last 13 increasing of the loading capacity flights of 9000 miles each, was 92,- by 70% is expressed in the working 867 ton/kms, compared with 46,365 figures.
Iton/kms on the corresponding 13: Compared with the corresponding fights in the previous year. This weeks of last year in which the increase was due to the initiative of service was operated with the Dou-the K L M. in starting the first glas DC 2, a machine of less speed non-surcharge air mail scheme be- and capacity than the DC 3, the first tween Europe and Asia The tran- week since June show an increase sport of passengers increased 25 of 100% in mail transport, 57% in well, viz to 1,240,156 pass/km, com- passenger transport and 52% in the 'pared with 788,767 in 1936.
The
42 DAYS
PENANG--LONDON
52 DAYS
SINGAPORE-LONDON
TWICE WEEKLY
Special Through Fares on Application Government Officials
and Officers 10% Reduction
KLM
ROYAL DUTCH AIR LINES AGENTS; JAVA CHINA JAPAN LINE
YORK BUILDING, OHATER ROAD.
A new type of plane, a wing less autogyro, invented by Profes sor H. Focke, in Germany, and piloted by M. Rohls, broke all existing records recently when it attained a height of 2,500 metres.
transport of freight came to 20,725 The traffic on the inland has al-“ (13,645) ton/kms.
most doubled. The new connection From next October the Amster-with Texel, the beautiful island in dam-Batavia service will be operat the Northern part of the country, ed three times a week.
has proved an immense success. EXCELLENT-RESULTS. Since the first of July, when this The summer service in Europe line was opened, almost every plane snows excellent results. Since the has been booked up to the last seat. last week in May the company has The world exhibition in Paris has carried daily about 475 passengers been largely, responsible for that the on the European stretches alone, traffic on the four daily services to which means an increase of 100 Paris in the last week being treble passengers daily compared with the the average daily traffic in 1936. last year The freight transport on the European lines again shows an increase, which is partly due to
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