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Trans-Hemisphere Transport. For two years European nations have been sending flyers to scout airways across Africa, across Asia. Last week England utilized its amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...
Publisher Black. For the first time in several years of flying, Baltimore's Publisher Van Lear Black last week had a "mishap." While flying over the French-Italian boundary, near Monte Carlo, on the return from his Croydon-Cape Town round trip, one of his three motors broke into pieces. His pilot made a safe landing...
Today the fastest and most expensive rail-water-rail crossing via Dover-Calais takes seven hours, while the cheap popular route via Southampton and St. Malo requires 18. To motor from Paris to Le Bourget, fly to Croydon, and motor to London takes two and a half hours...
Lady Bailey, 39, landed her plane at Croydon airport, near London. She had been on-the-way from Cape Town, South Africa, since May 12. Trouble in the jungle and with stubborn British colonial officials, she said. But nonetheless Lady Bailey tossed off her helmet proudly; she had completed a round trip of 18,000 miles, something her rival, Lady Heath, had never done; furthermore, she had beaten Lady Heath in that strange shuttle race of last spring...
...brought its own reward. The landing field is being hailed as 'the world's greatest air traffic center' and sufficient facts are presented to substantiate the boast. The total volume of traffic during the last few months has exceeded that of Tempelhofer Field, Berlin, and Croydon, near London, long holders of first and second place. . . . The airport site is now valued at half a million dollars more than it cost. Other cities . . . may well cheer Cleveland's achievement...