BOLD AIR PROGRAMME

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 476, 4 October 1928, Page 9

BOLD AIR PROGRAMME

FRANCE WAKES UP NEW MINISTER BUSTLES (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Times Cable. Reed. 11.45 a.m. LONDON, Wed. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” says an extensive development in civil aviation is foreshadowed in the programme of the new Air Minister, M. Laurent Eynac. It proposes services linking up Paris with all the principal European capitals, also North Africa. It begins forthwith by improving existing lines, especially increasing postal facilities including Paris to Malmo, via Amsterdam, Paris to Moscow, via Berlin, and Warsaw, Paris and Madrid with a branch to Lisbon. New lines are starting to Geneva, Lyons, and Bordeaux. Negotiations have been begun with Italy to link Paris with the Eastern Mediterranean. The route for South America will be entirely by air, eliminating steamer sections.

More remote plans include linking the London and India service by a connection through Syria, and cooperation with Belgium for a service to Madagascar, via the Congo. M. Eynac declares that spectacular long-disance flights have already served their purpose as test material, but pilots nowadays are more anxious to make personal records than technical discoveries. He intends to encourage private manufacturers with Government orders, and to encourage navigation companies with long contracts and guaranteed interests.