BRITISH AIR LINERS
FAST TIMES RECORDED. LONDON TO BRUSSELS IN 48 MINUTES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 11. Imperial Airways' fast new monoplanes continue to set inter-capital commercial records.
In November the Frobisher,' the first of the four-engined De Havilland Albatross monoplanes commissioned for service on the company's European routes, flew from London to Paris in 53 minutes at an average speed of 232 miles an hour. The following month she flew with mails from England to Egypt at an average speed in the air for the 2300 miles of 219 miles an hour. Yesterday her sister craft, the Falcon, carried 11 passengers, a crew of four and a ton of freight from London to Brussels, a distance of 200 miles, in 148 minutes, surpassing the previous best time accomplished by an Italian Sabena machine in the licet of Belgium's State air transport company, by five minutes and averaging 250 miles an hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1939, Page 5
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