According to a report just received! another giant aeroplane of the type Junkers JU"S2 started. from Berlin on December 20 for Shanghai, where it will be taken over by the Eurasia Aviation Corporation. This will be the fourth plane of this type to be used in China, the three others having flown out previously.
The Damek—which is the distin-
Suishing designation of the new acro-Dlane—is under the command of a veteran military and traffic pilot, Captain (ret) Krueger, who in spite of his 82 years is reckoned as one lof the best and most experienced German pilots. His ce-pilot is Flight Caplain Eberhard Tusche, a well Known post-war tier and a native of Cologne. Captain Tusche has with! him his old experienced mechanic and wireless operator Hugo Krause, who has. been his companion on many thousand miles of night flying, while the post of wireless operator is held by Willi Borell, who has been fying} fon the night route from Cologne to London for: the I few years and g an experienced man in his Job.
'The route to be taken by the three-motored plane is the same as that 'Mown by te same type of aeroplane 'September, i.e. via Athens, Bagh= dad, "Karachi, Rangoon. and' Hanoi. If the flight' proceeds according to schedule. the DaMfak will probably: Jarrive in Shanghai on December 28.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.