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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1936.

An Empire On The Wing

ANADA

LONDON

AFRICA

The Inside Story of Britain's Other Air Force, and What It Has Accomplished

AUSTRALIA

This will mean that instead of spending the night in an hotel or rest-house on the ground, long- distance passengers will be able to eat, sleep, and live in them just as they would in a liner or in a long-distance train.

The time-schedule would be arranged on a 24-hour basis,. and night, say, from Eng- land to Australia would be reduced to not more than a week.

Alternatively, if they wish to do so, they will still be able to break their journey at places of interest or where desired for business pur- poses.

FLYING progress has been even

more rapid than enthusiasts expected in the early days,

That great poineer, Louis Bleriot, whose death wo were mourning only the other day, was discussing after he flow the Channel what he foresaw would be the developments of air traffic in the years to come.

He pictured passenger planes

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EOPLE opened their papers the other morn-

Ping to read a remarkable report of Empire

air progress of more mails air-borne, of more passengers carried, of more miles flown.

They read that the air route mileage of the British Common- wealth of Nations has now risen till it is higher than that of the United States.

And they went on to rend other figures which confound thok critics who have belittled our British policy of ateady, concentratel air progress, and who have been far too ready with their indiscri- ninate applause of everything of a spectacular nature which has been achieved elsewhere.

Behind all these facts and figures there is one of the grent romances of modern enterprise. Our British air-mail system is unique in the world's history. Nothing like it has even been seen before.

At every hour of the twenty- four, somewhere along thousands of milos of routes, our big land- planes or flying-boats wing their why.

The air-mail is an organisa- tion which never rests or sleeps. Up from the grent provincial cities of Britain come mail loads intended for destinations in Egypt, Indiñ, Africa, China, or Australia. Expert sortera deal with them in the ever-growing air-mail depart-' ment at the General Post Office.

Fast mail vans rush them down.

· are

officials.

G-AC

nono

of the

to the London air-port. Into the

tiny craft holds of our big air-liners they like the taxi-driver knows the bands, while the Sheikh of Sharjah N the early days of air trans just after the war, when bombing far larger than his

stowed by quick-working streets of the big cities.

provides armed guards and does.

port, 17 years ago, the pilota planes were being converted into which would in due course wing

and Eight of our veteran British air all in his power to help our had

wonderful passenger-carriers,

every their way to and fro between captains have between them now officials.

organisation which is constantly flight was such an adventure that Britain and France.

one pilot took three days to mako Passengers who spend the night at their service to-day. the names called out of titles ten million miles, and eight of our at this station, and who watch the There was no wireless communi- the 200-mile air journey from thousands of miles distant to big air-liners, flying day in and camel caravans stealing by in the cation between ground

stations London to Parist which these airmails are to be day out, have, since they came into

and aircraft in flight. flown in swift, accurately-timed service, flown more than five relays.

IT is a romance in itself to hear flown a total distance approaching

OVER

million miles.

Last year we carried more than 17 million letters by air.

dusk, and that they have at their service on this desolate const amenities they would expect in any West End hotel.

And that la just one of the many

Calcutta! Bombay! Singa- pore! Hongkong! And for 13,000 miles to the great, fur-distant cities of Australia! IT is a romance of fact as well as marvels of the Empire air-mali. Glant land-planes bear these of figures. Let me give you Aerodromes were hacked out of mails across the Channel. Big an fostance. Along what used to forests to make it possible to run flying-boats carry them above the be called "The Pirate Const the great route across Africa. A Other land- that is to say, the Arabian side of wonderful organisation of wireless planes are waiting in relays to fly the Persian Gulf-our mail-planes and of meteorology has been aouthward from Egypt, across fly on the route to India and the created.

Refuelling depots have had Africa, and eastward to India, East.

to be installed at points far China and Australia,

from the nearest centres of supply.

Mediterranean.

But that coast no longer has the bad reputation of olden days.

The Sheikha have signed treaties abolishing piracy and slave-running.

To-day there is a great net. work of wireless and meteor ology which extends not only ncross Europe, but far out over the Empire.

The wireless telephone and telegraph provido never-failing links between the airman up aloft and ground stations.

He can ask the nearest station for a weather report, and learn exactly what the conditions are liko on the sections of his route ahead.

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I was in August, 1919, that Britain began the world's first. daily air express between London and Paris.

Three months later the Post. Office made a contract for the carriage of maile by air on tinental routes.

But even he did not content- plate that, within a quarter of a century of that history- making fight of his, there would be 50 or 60 air-liners' passing daily between London and the Continent.

The osme of comfort.

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That opened up a great phase of expansion which sees us to-day building a fleet of Empire flying-boats in which next year letter mails will be carried by air from London to distant parts of the Empire free of any special serial sur- charge.

It is a fascinating organisation, on the ground as well as up in the

Ho can tune in to wireless air, which enables our nerial post-

Extremes of climate have had to stations and by means of be encountered and overcome. men to fly over, ecas, forests,

At homing" device which he has in

be guided The passengers who flew in the mountains and deserts, In bad At Sharjah, on a remote part of one point along our Empire route his machine can

early days and make a flight in weather as well as in fine, with a this pirate const, a rest-house. the heat may be so great that infallibly towards that station.

All this will mean that, far passengers say

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reminds It is breaking the

And when it comes to landing, an nir-liner to-day can hardly A mechanical dependability is them of one of those romantic thermometers, and at another he has a wonderful system of believe that so much progress has sooner than many people think, other aids, been made in a comparatively it will be possible for you to send ensured by our fleet of multi- desert stations you see on the point our airmen may be flying ground lighting and

a letter completely round the engined air-liners maintained and films-or read about in novels through snowstorma.

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Our new flying-boats will globe in a series of rapidly Inter- overhauled by expert engineers. has been erected.

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