Official Trip Over Afri Prospects an Air Route:
Outlined Glowing Fro Our Own London, Feb. 14.
Sir, Evie Geddes, Chairman, atid Mr, GE. Woods Humphiey, Managing Director, of Imperial Airways, arrived: back from their inspection of the African Air route yesterday Morning. On" landing from the "Warwick Castle" at Southampton, they were met by a Heracles class airliner and a. large number of African press representatives. During the Journey from Southampton to Croydon in the machine, Sir Eri gave a description of his Part as follows:—
We flew in one of our largest raft, which is now operating re-galany between Egypt and Kenya. We do not, in these days of excellence of British aviation material, expect anything untoward to happen, but it ix satisfactory never for one moment, did the air= raft or her equipment give us the test anxiety or trouble on the whole journey. Did we keep good time? "Certainly; we were always on, or ahead of, schedule on the whole journey, with the exception of the Inst, couple of hundred miles, when we struck a tremendous. gal crossing the Hex River Mountains and this made us an hour or so late at Cape Townnot bad for " journey of 8,000 miles; especially when, in response to many pressing official invitations, we made special' landings in order to meet the Mayors and authorities responsible for the fine Municipal Air Ports on our Route,
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