JAHRE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER
300,000 MILES OF AIR ROUTES
GIANT CLIPPER PLANES
As the first of Pan American Airways new fleet of trans-oceanic clippers, now being built at the Boeing Aircraft factory at Seattle, has reached a stage of construc- tion sufficiently advanced to war- rant photographing, announcement was made of the names selected for the first two ships in the new fleet.
The names selected to carry on the modern tradition of speed in America's international trade so ably begun by the Brazilian, Carib- bean, China, Hawaii, Philippine and Hong Kong Clipper (to name but a few) are Atlantic Clipper and South Seas Clipper.
"In the Assembly Hangar at the Boeing plant, these two new ships of the sky, largest commercial flyingboats ever built, already stand out as imposing and impressive craft.
The indoor docks in which the ships are being assembled each measure 115 feet in length, are 26 feet high and have a width at the middle of 38 feet.
Jigs and construction scaffolding
IN OPERATION
The first of six new super-clippers for Pan American Airways trans- pacific services takes shape at Boeing Aircraft factory, Seattle. Construc- tion is proceeding on four levels simultaneously on the ship which will weigh 421⁄2 tons, nearly twice the size of the China Clipper, and which will have four engines with a total of 6,000 horsepower and a capacity of seventy-two passengers.
AIR DEFENCE PLANS FOR LONDON
Statistics which have become available show that the total mileage of the world's air-mails has now reached, and slightly ex- ceeded, a figure of 300,000. Eighteen years ago, in air trans port's earliest days, the figure stood at only just over 3,000 miles.
To study the latest maps tracing globe encircling air-mails is to Irealise the wonderful progress which has been made by air trans- [port since that morning in Novem- ber, 1919, when the British Post Office sent its first mail-load across the Charmel by the pioneer London-Paris commercial service.
EXTENSIVE SERVICE
From that modest beginning, in- volving the carrying of letters over › à 250-miles route, a system of air- mails has developed which not only serves. all the chief towns and cities of Europe, but which ex- tends stage by stage far across seas, continents, and oceans.
Eastward from England go the Empire flying-boats to Egypt. Southward across Africa they fly, and then down the new east-coast marine line to Durban. West Africa is served by a connecting route, while links are also forged with the inland airways of South Africa
י.
Eastward from Egypt Empire The plans for the aerial defence Sir Hamilton said that Mr. mail-planes fly to Karachi, Cal- - around the South Seas Clipper in-
of the Port of London are so good Toovey's last big job was to or cutta, Rangoon, Singapore, and cludes approximately 80,000 board feet, or 31⁄2 carloads of lumber.that they have been adopted by the ganise and improve the defences of Australia. From Karachi a con- Government as the basis of the de- the port against air raids and necting service takes, loads to The construction catwalk around
Madras. From the new clipper is one-half mile in fence in wartime of all the ports enemy action, and it was his plan Bombay and
in the United Kingdom.
which the Government had adopted Penang, on the trunk route, a ser- length.
This is announced by Sir Ion for all ports.
vice branches. off to Hong Kong. Hamilton Benn, 2 member of the
When the main eastern service Port of London Authority, at a
reaches Brisbane, it links up with Australia's internal air system, while plans are being completed for a regular air-mail between Australia and New Zealand.
The B. Steamship “Tilawa" will farewell luncheon to Mr. T. B
leave for Singapore, Port Swetten-Toovey, of the Port of London Au- SURVEY FLIGHT
ham, Penang, Rangoon and Calcutta thority, who is leaving to be the on or about Thursday, Dec. 2, at Authority's representative in Aus- 10.30 am
tralia and New Zealand.
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The Imperial Airways flying- boat, the Satyrus, is now engaged on a survey flight across India and on to Singapore to test marine air- bases * and other facilities which have been in preparation re- cently.
- ATLANTIC ROUTE On the North Atlantic, survey fights have been in progress which are a preliminary to a regular ocean air-mail linking existing Empire routes with the air-mail systems of Canada and the United States; while Canada, at the pre- isent time, is putting finishing route are expected in the near fu- touches to a trans-continental route ture, and they will be followed in due course by the introduction of stretching from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. regular services by Empire flying-
The air-mail system of the United boats between England and the] Far East; and, later, between Tag-States is, according to present land and Australia.
plans, soon to be augmented by
Further survey flights on this
The Satyrus is in the charge of further internal routes; while a survey crew from the Imperial trunk services now extend across Airways Empire base at Alexan-South America to Montevideo, dria, and is expected to arrive at Buenos Ayres, Valparaiso, and Singapore at the end of October. other cities: and a South Atlantic Not long ago, it may be remember-ocean route connects these So
South ed, the 'Satyrus' made a survey American lines with the air-mails fight on the Africa marine route. of Europe.
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