Two important survey flights to Lisbon, Oct. 8. Lisbon have been successfully completed by British Airways.
Both were full-scale test Mights preparatory to the inauguration of regular passenger and mail service between England and Portugal on the first stage of a new air route to West Africa, which is to be developed by British Airways and eventually extended across the Atlantic to South America.
Both machines participating in the survey Mights left Heston airport at '824 yesterday morning.
One made a. non-stop Might to Lisbon, arriving at the Cintra aero-Jdrome" at 2.53. For the 1,043-mile Journey and against a head wind of 40 miles per hour the average ground speed was 160 miles an hour.
The second machine—the liner which carried Mr. Neville Chamber-Jain to Munich last week—arrived at its destination at 345 pin. after making a scheduled stop at Bordeaux. Reuter.
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