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THE CHINA M

VEMBER 18, 1987

ROUND WORLD IN 13 DAYS

BY

ESTABLISHED ROUTES

The survey flight to the Azores, from which the Imperial Airways flying-boat Caledonia has just re- turned, has yielded valuable data for future Atlantic passenger air services.

When the regular service across the North Atlantic is ready, within the next three years, it will be possible for a traveller to fly by established routes all round the world in 13 days. The stages will be:

Southampton-Botwood

Days

1

Botwood-Vancouver

12

Vancouver-San Francisco

San Francisco-Hong-Kong

4

Hong Kong-Southampton.

13

The Trans-Canada Air Line will be open for regular traffic next summer from Montreal to Van- couver and an extension eastwards to Halifax, Nova Scotia, is pro- Jected.

Possibilities of a direct air route from Vancouver to Japan and China are mentioned by Mr. S. J. Hungerford. president of Canadian National Railways and of Tran Canada Air Lines, but until that is established air travellers wil fy from Vancouver to San Francisco. and there take the Pan-American

Air Line to Manila and Hong

Kong.

Airship Voyages Next Year They would save time however- by flying hy way of New York to San Francisco.

The trans-Atlantic air service

by Imperial Airways. in co-opera- tion with Pan-American Airways! is in sight, but long before it car be realised it will be possible for the traveller to fly all the way round the world.

The giant French flying boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris on October 27 established a new world long dis- tance record for flying boats with 3,612 miles when it landed at Maceio, 140 miles south of Pernambuco, after crossing the South Atlantic from Morocco in 34 hours 43 minutes. Photo showsThe record breaking French flying boat, Lieutenant de Vaissean Paris, in fight. (Fox Copyright: By "Air Mail).

BRITAIN

LEADS

WORLD

#

Britain's position as the world's leading supplier of aeronautical material has been established by the steadily rising value of her

exports.

A high official of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, Ltd., said: "Improvements in the quality of aircraft, aero-engines. and spare parts have been reflected in the demand.

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This

year's demand: from abroad for British aeronautical products has exceeded that of all previous years. The values of ex- horts for the first eight months of 1037 show a notable increase. At the end of August material worth €2.050.252 had been exported com- pared with $1,676.866 during the the first eight months of 1936, and $1.927.972 during the coresmonding ages across the Atlantic with pas period of 1935. Last month's ex-

This possibility will be provide next summer, and will only exis for a short season. The HAY helium Zeppelin airship will. b- launched next spring, and it is the intention to make a series of voy-

sengers.

the

ports totalled $334.025 in value. This will be the prelude to a

"There is ground for the ex- regular service to be run when pectation that 1937 will set a new sister airship is ready.

export record. Except for 1939, From Frankfurt to New York when the value of the oversea including the flight from Lake-trade declined to $1,465,515. hurst, New Jersey, to New York-lowest aggregate for many years will take three days, so that two Britain has again and again re- days must be added to the schedule afirmed her pre-eminence in this given above.

field. The highest figure reached was in 1996, with a total value of £2.925.238.

London-Shanghai In Four Days

The day will soon arrive when a letter will go from London to Shanghai, via Vancouver, in four days and probably in 1940 or 1941 an air mail letter from London wil reach Vancouver in two days. ^

A business may flying from Van- couver to London may take less.

"It was freely predicted that a steep decline would set in în 1997 and that because of the demande made upon industry and the Royal Air Force expansion programme the British aircraft

than two days, stay two or threeould dwindle, and then trade

disappear. The figures show that, these pessimistic forecas

days in London, and be back in. Vancouver easily within a week.

Fiving in British latitudes itenally wide of the mark bs ample acity within the

would be nossible for the ullo of

Welllarion” bomber-new

meet both Imperial and

supplied to the R.A.F, in foreign demands. complete the circuit of the globe, on a distance of about 13,000 miles, with one half- hall. It would be simple mat- ter for his machine, taking

more or less Equatorial course, to compl

ajor circuit

well within

5,000-MILE

EXPLORATION FLIGHT

Reference to civil air progressed the nearest approach by air to in Australia calls attention to an the region to be surveyed, and exploration flight of 5,000 miles to after this the party went on by the remote Petermann Ranges in camel team. Central Australia which was ac- The aeroplane was employed to complished recently by a party of keep in daily touch with the camel Queensland business men.

team, and to drop additional food Their purpose was to explore supplies as required. Actually the remote and inaccessible desert party were absent from Brisbane. their starting-point, for a period territory with a view to its pos

of just over 30 days, dur sible exploitation from a gold-5.195 miles were flown. Only mining view-point..

days were needed to fly to and The prospectors were flown in a from the Petermann Ranges. By Qantas Empire Airways 'plane to surface transport such journeys a point in the Ranges which afford- would have occupied many weeks.

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