PARIS-AMERICAN AIR MAIL
FIRST AEROPLANE LEAVES FRIDAY HALVING TIME OF PRESENT SERVICE (Rec. March 1, 7.50 p.m.) Paris, February 29. A regular air mail service between Paris and South America is being inaugurated on Friday, when the first ’plane starts from Paris. It is expected that the 9000 miles will be covered in ten days, just half the time of the present service. Aerial lighthouses will shortly be installed to permit of night travelling. By the autumn it is hoped that the journey will be done in seven days and later in four days. The route is via Toulouse, Casablanca, Senegal, and Cape Verde, whence the mails will be taken by a dispatch boat to Brazil, and thence carried in an aeroplane to Buenos Ayres. There will lie a surcharge of 7} francs for a five grammes letter to Brazil and of nine francs to other countries. — A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 9
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150PARIS-AMERICAN AIR MAIL Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 9
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