ATLANTIC AIRWAYS
PLANS FOR BRITISH SERVICE HOPES OF MAKING START IN JULY. EXTENDED OPERATIONAL TESTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 24. The departure of the Yankee Clipper from Southampton on the return journey after the inauguration of PanAmerican Airways' North Atlantic air mail service lent special interest to a statement in the House of Commons by the- Under-Secretary for Air, 4 Captain Balfour, on plans for the start of the North Atlantic service by a British operating company. Captain Balfour explained that a postponement had been necessitated by the desire, in the interests of operational safety and efficiency, to give a 400 hours flight test to the engines and to carry through certain alterations to the fuelling system found desirable as the result of practical tests. He said he hoped the service would begin in July. YANKEE CLIPPER. DEPARTURE EROM MARSEILLES.
(Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) MARSEILLES. May 25. The Yankee Clipper took off at 8.15 a.m., carrying 7701bs of mails.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1939, Page 5
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