ARCTIC AIRWAY
IMPROVED MAIL SERVICE IN FROZEN NORTH
LETTERS AND 'NEWSPAPERS TO BE DROPPED. EXPERIMENTS WITH PARACHUTE DELIVERY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Receivted This Day, 9.0 a.m.) MOSCOW, December 12. A regular air mail service established by the Soviet with the Arctic and Eastern Siberia will drop letters and newspapers for reindeer herdsmen and at fifty-six radio stations in the Far North. The pilots are also experimenting with a parachute delivery of parcels. Propeller-driven aero-sleds, with a speed of sixty miles an hour will supplement the air mail for remote districts north of Habarovsk, in Kamchatka and along the Arctic rivers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1938, Page 5
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