AIR MAIL TO RIVIERA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1934, 17 December 1913, Page 7

AIR MAIL TO RIVIERA.

■ .LETTERS 525 MILES BY AEROPLANE. 'At tlio end of next week, says the Paris correspondent, of (ho "Daily Mail" under dale October 31, a second aerial postal service is to bo started in Trainee. .* - The one already bef;nn is from Paris to Pauillao (in tho south-west of France) to : caioh the South American steamers once a fortnight. ' The new service is to be more elahcrate. The .airman-is to fly from' Paris to Nie-;, taking with him a big mail, and coming .down on the way at Xovors, Lyons! and Orange, at oaeh of which towns he will drop one sao-k of letters and take on board another for. the smith. From Paris to Xico bv air is 46-"; miles, Iml- the detours the air postman will make will prolong; Iris journey to 5!?!) miins. '■ Me will leave Paris at S a.m., the ln.iiln being brought to tho flying ground at Issy-los-M'tulinenux from the head post office by motor-car. The airman will thus have 81 hours before, sunset. in which to complete iiis journey. The flight will bo made in n biplane of 100 horse-power capable of ' attaining a, speed of seventy miles an hour. . Tim Ministrv of Commerce lias Insisted that tho biplane- shall hit provided with an automatic stabilising device. 'When tho now service, has'beon. established tho saving over the railway will bo twenty hours, ' -'- L