Ever-Busy Airways

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 601, 1 March 1929, Page 9

Ever-Busy Airways

GERMANY FLIES AHEAD Swift Sky-Liners Link Cities (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service) Received 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. NO country in Europe has built up a finer ground organisation for the purposes of aviation than Germany,” says the “Daily Mail’s” special investigator. He offers good reason for forming this opinion.

Germany, he says, possesses 32 speci-ally-equipped airplane harbours, and 66 officially recognised landing places, from all of which petrol is obtainable, and repairs are done, and to all of which weather reports are wirelessed from Berlin and other centres. The airplanes come and go on a network of invisible lines, with the regularity of railway trains. The times of departure and arrival fill more than 100 sections of the summer timetable. It will soon be difficult to find a place of any importance in Germany,

to whicli it will be impossible to travel by air. A special company has been formed to illuminate the night flying routes, which include Berlin to Konigsberg and Berlin to Hanover. The Air Hansa is receiving directly and indirectly £2,000,000 from the Reich. It controls most of the 27 principal airlines, but there are 46 other companies with passenger and freight-carry-ing rights. Eighteen firms are engaged in airplane making. Berlin has a school for training civil pilots, and there are 11 other institutes in different parts of Germany for teaching flying.