AIR VOYAGES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16416, 9 January 1919, Page 7

AIR VOYAGES.

LONDON TO AUSTRALIA. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.a. Cable Aseociation.) (Received January Bth, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, January 7. A representative of the "Daily Chronicle" had an interview with Mr Holt Thomas, a director of the Aircraft Manufacturing Company, whoso directorate, Major Brancker, has just joined. Mr Holt Thomas said an air journey to Australia could now be done at 100 miles por hour, including stoppages. The speed for a world journey would soon be 130 miles per hour. A single airman would not fly all the way to New South Wales. The first man would go to Paris, and would find another airman waiting there. In five minutes the mail receptacle would be transferred to the second machine, which would resume the journey. A three hundred-mile trip was sufficient for any one pilot. It was important to develop an aircooled engine to replace the present water-cooled engine, which became faulty in the tropics and tho Antarctic, through the water either boiling or freezing. A trans-Atlantic flight should bo accomplished in 1919, but no seaplane could stand an Atlantic roller. TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. AUSTRALIANS MAKING ATTEMPT. (Received January Bth, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 7. It is likely that a party of Australian flying mon will make an attempt to win the "Daily Mail's" £10,000 prize for a trans-Atlantic flight. The men, who are now preparing, will use a Handley Page machine for the task SOUTH AFRICAN ROUTE. (Beater's Telegrams.) CAPE TOWN, January 7. Captain Shortridge has arrived at Pretoria to make arrangements for a trial flight and to prepare landing places between Broken Hill and Capo Town. A second party has gone to German East Africa, and a third is working south to complete the line of communication between London and Cape Town. It is estimated that the flying hours will be roughly one hundred. The stopping places in the southern sector will be Broken Hill, Victoria Falls, Palapye, Pretoria, Beaufort West, and Cape Town.