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Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 6, 18 August 1933, Page 35

AN interesting example of the long-dis-tance wireless communication which is now being obtained between aircraft and ground stations is the reception of the result of the Derby by the Imperial Airways air-liner, Hannibal, while flying along the section of the India air route between Bagdad and Basra, The operator heard the wireless message from England giving the result of the race which had just been run at Epsom, and the passengers in the machine were thus able to learn the result: within a minute or so of the winner haying passed the pos*