The Archive · 1935

Shanghai to Yunnan in One Day

The China National Aviation Corporation has been responsible for another fine feat of commercial aviation in this country. Their newly purchased tri-motored Ford plane, fully loaded with mails, excess, and Passengers, took off from the acrodrome at Lunghwa last Wednesday: mommy, at 6 o'clock, and flew west ward with Kunming (Yunnan) as its destination, via Nanking, Hankow, Chungking, and Kweiyang (the capital of Kweichow province), With favourable weather all along the journey, the plane reached Kunming, shortly before 7 pam. in the evening, and was warmly greeted by a large crowd.

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