London, Apr. 13,
tion are foreshadowed in the Envy developments in lil vig struction programme of the Imperial Airways Ca.
Before the end of the present year, the company will have in use 11 new aircraft,—eight land aeroplanes and three flying: boat ight land aeroplanes ave being built by Handley Page, Fou of them are forty-seaters and are intended for the European. stages of the air service, They axe Diplanes, each fitted with four Bristol Jupiter engines and each having slotted Unlike prev these machines will 1d metal fuselages.
The other four will be identical, th the exception that they will carry only twenty passengers, the remainder of the space and lift capacity being needed for mails and other freight. These are intended for that part of the Indian route east of Cairo.
Three flying boats are being built by Short Bros. and these also are four-engined 40-seaters. They are needed for the Mediterranean, section of the routes to India and The weekly air mail to India was speeded up yesterday by the saving of a day due to the fact that the service docs not now include the long railway section from Cologne to Athens. Instead, Imperial wir~ ways? airliners. take mails and passengers all the way to Uskub, ili Cologne, Vienna and Budapest, The only rail section is Uskub to Salonica, From Salontea flying boats crexs to Alexandria, land acro= planes doing: the rest of the journey. Alexandria is reached in three days from England, and Karachi in seven days—Wireless through Reuter.
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