A party representing the Air Ministry and British Airways has just left London on the interesting job of surveying a new direct route between England and West Africa. They go first to Freetown and thence will travel back along the coast to Bathurst in Gambia, ex-+|amining all possible sites for aerodromes and harbours from which a service across the South Atlantic might be operated. They also have to find places. where ground stations and emergency landing grounds could be established, and further to decide whether Or landplanes
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