Here ate some items of varied inforest from. this week's Imperial Airways "Bulletin."
There is a rapidly developing trade in cut lowers between Holland and Egypt. They. are sent in the ordin ary Way to Southampton and thence by Imperial Airways fying-boat to Egypt. Not only do the flowers travel Dut they get less handling and so arrive fresher. Flowers are also in considerable quantities tween the continent and England.
the development of medical' sir services in Russia. first-aid flying units have now, It is reported, been established at approximately 40'cities.
Aerial forestry patrols are bein widely developed in the United States with much success, Among the aircraft employed are' machines which have special pump devices by which fire-extinguishing chemicals can be applied to an outbreak in its fearly stages, Other aircraft are used for the transport of fire-fighters and their equipment. Many new landing grounds are being made expressly for the patrols. i forward for the pilot, in front of the leading edge of the wings; and there are three gun position in the nose, midway between wings and fail in the upper deck of the fuselage, and in the extreme tail. The landing Wheels retract "backwards into the engine nacelles.
The wing span of this formidable! new bomber is 06 ft. It is 61 ft. long.
Tue British Service Mission to Portugal left Southampton in the s. Alcantara on Feb. 18. The mission, to establish closer contact between the services of the two countries, view of the common maritime in terests: and long-established friend~ ship which exist between Great and Portugal,
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