NIGHT AIR SERVICE
EASTERN CANADA TO PACIFIC. MONTREAL. An overnight transcontinental air mail service from Eastern Canada to the Pacific seaport of Vancouver and a. corresponding flight eastward was inaugurated on March 1. The first plane to make the flight from here carried a load of 500 pounds of mail including 15,000 letters mailed by philatelists. A note of originality was the fact that one of the letters carried was sent by J. A. D. McCurdy who was the designer of the “Silver Dart” which was flown by him at Baddeck, on the Canadian Atlantic coast on February 23, 1909, and created aviation history inasmuch as it was credited to be the first airplane flight in the British Empire. Mr McCurdy, who was associated with the late Dr Rlexander Graham Bell, Canadian inventor of the telephone, in designing this airplane, then flew the machine at a speed of 40 miles an hour for a period of half an hour. The Trans-Canada Air Liners today travel at an average speed of 180 miles an hour and have a top speed of 260 miles.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1939, Page 5
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182NIGHT AIR SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1939, Page 5
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