ACROSS ATLANTIC
MAILS. AND PASSENGERS
FITIST TLAXE LEAVES
United I'rcss Assorts I lon— By Electric T«l»
ci'iii>i>—CoiijriKlit.
(Ilcccivcd January G, 10 a.m.)
LONDON, January 5.
The first weekly transatlantic air mail was inaugurated by an Air-France aeroplane deporting from Croydon for Santiago, via Toulouse. Dakar, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, a distance of 9365 miles, for which the schedule is four days. This will be the fastest longdistance line in the world.
The Atlantic will be flown in fourengined flying boats, evolved after lengthy, experiments.
The mail service is the first step to a passenger service, in which a seven-teen-ton flying boat, providing sleeping accommodation and crossing the Atlantic in fifteen hours, will be used. Miss Jean Batten sent a message wishing the undertaking good luck.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19360106.2.68.1
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 7
Word Count
125ACROSS ATLANTIC Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in