“FAITH AND MONEY”
NEEDS FOR AUSTRALIAN AIR SERVICE
VIEWS OF COBHAM By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Monday. ‘•There is nothing that cannot be done, provided the people put down faith and enough money,’* declared Sir Alan Cobham, discussing the prospects of establishing an air service to Australia, using a giant flying-boat similar to the type in which he is going to South Africa. The ideal plan seemed to be to take a flying-boat to Cairo, a land machine to India, a flj*iug-boat to Australia, then a land machine again. He believed that this would result in an efficient 20-days’ service. Mr. Oswald Short, manager for Short Bros., thought that five years would see a flying service to Australia. He is at present engaged in the production of a long-distance passenger amphibian plane, which he declares will be one of the principal factors in Empire air links. “They will,” he says, “be essential for Australian flights, as laud giants may not be able to take off from smaller airdromes, whereas a flyingboat can be manipulated on the smallest lake.*’—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 196, 8 November 1927, Page 9
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