LONDON TO SYDNEY BY AIR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 48, 21 November 1918, Page 4

LONDON TO SYDNEY BY AIR

THE ATTEMPT TO BE MADE.

The cable message in yesterday's Dominion stating'that Air. Handley-Pogo considers the 150-hour aerial trip from England to' Australia a possibility _is evidently an endorsement of the opinion expressed bv Air. Reginald Lloyd in an article published in "Sen, Land, and Air" (Sydney) on November i. That gentleman recently convened a meeting of men prominent in the commercial world, and outlined his scheme as follows :—"Wc are hero to decide definitely whether or not Australia is to be brought within 150 hours' flying distance of London; and if we decide that it is to ba done, I am here to consummate and to put into immediate effect that decision; aerial science having rendered possible such an achievement. No ono machine could fly with safety from London to Australia- That (ask could only be accomplished in relays, and, wheh.it is a matter of maintaining a mnil service, the pilots would also have to bo worked in relays." Air. Lloyd suggested 300milo stages, and a route that would traverse Australia, New Guinea, Calobes, Borneo, Penam?, Afalny Archipelago, Burmali, India. Afghanistan, Persia, Arabia, Egypt. Northern Africa. Spain, and France'. The article states that tho 'moiiev to finance the ' expedition was subscribed in the room, and that tho expedition would leave Sydney on November W (last week) to make a preliminary survey of the route and map out landing-places, a work, which will occupv six months. It was ntso arranged that on ihe first triii a letter would be carried from His Arnje«fy (lie King to tho Governor-General of Australia.