AERIAL MAILS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1930, Page 5

AERIAL MAILS

THE AUSTRALIAN SERVICES AERIAL MAILS.

SYDNEY, April 24

While Mr C. lilm, colleague of Kingsford-Sufith in the latter’s epic flights, and joint managing director of Australian National Airways, does not share the recent prophecy that, in ten years’ time, it will', be possible to make a non-stop flight from Australia to England m aeroplanes in throe days,. he' /believes; the day is fast approaching when the ordinary cruising speed of commercial and passenger air liners, such as those now operating daily on the Sydney-Brisbane airway, will be 200 miles an hour. The cruising speed 5 of the liners on that skyway is now 100 miles an hour, with a top- speed of 117 miles an hour. Mr Ulm believes' also that, with improved design of aircraft, practically automatic. s'teering will overcome tlie risks of “blind flying.”

The total mileage of Australian National Airway. liners, during their brief three months’ operation between Sydney and Brisbane, means, in effect, tnat they do a trip round the world every 25 days. Not a had record for a new and unsubsidised private enterprise, without an accident to passengers or personnel of its aeroplanes. With the I extension of the daily service to Melbourne, in four or live weeks’ time, the total mileage covered between Brisbane and Victoria capital will mean a world flight in distance about every 15 days. The company proposes to equip all its liners with two-way wireless communications.