The Archive · 1938

Newspapers by Air

Englishmen in Paris have long since ceased to have to wait for the London papers till the afternoon. Every day now before dawn an eropline leaves Croydon for Paris carrying 2% tons of newspapers.

freight service first began in May 1934, continued for six months and was discontinued in the writer Begun again in April 1935 it has been Berlin, Sept. 6.

The Deutsche Lufthansa plane Nordmeer which started from Horta, Azores, for New York at 1 o'clock yesterday morning, has according to a report received by the Dents che] Lufthansa, landed safely in New York at 5.01 o'clock yesterday afternoon, thus completing the flight in sixteen hours one minute.

The sister-plane of the Nordmeer; the Nordwind, left New York for Cleveland on Saturday last in connection with the national air races, ihe greatest American air event of ithe year. The arrival of the four-engined Junkers plane whose motors are driven by heavy oil, provided 4 sensation at Cleveland. The plane which arrived punctuall to the minute, carried out an exhibition flight and then came down in the yacht harbour on Lake Erie. A large crowd thus had the opportunity to get a close view of the plane which with its sister plane Nordmeer has crossed the Atlantic thirty times.

On Sunday, the Nordwind returned to New York from where she is to start for Horta, Azores, in the course of today.—Trans-Ocean.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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