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route is about 480 miles. Mr. F. Leo Crilly expects to have, by next August, new British multi-engined machines cruising at about 170 m.p.h. lie intends starting the service early next year with the Fokkers, which cruise at about 125 m.p.h., and they will afterwards be used as supplementary freight carriers.
Mr. Crilly has gone this week to ,t,isbon to settle contracts for carrying mails and passengers from Portugal and Spain to England, and hopes to carry Reglish mails outwards. He also hopes to extend the line later to Gibraltar.
WINTER WISDOM AT BLACKPOOL.
DEVELOPMENTS at one of the two Blackpool airports are foreshadowed by instructions given by Blackpool Airport Committee to the borough surveyor, to prepare plans and an estimate of -the cost of making a Class A airport at either Stanley Park or Squires Gate: 'Before a Class A certificate is granted, an airport must have a minimum runway of 1,200 yds. in one direction , and 1,000 'yds. in other directions.
ANOTHER ORKNEY AIRPORT WE learn that Aberdeen Airways, Ltd„ operator of the second Aberdeen-Orkney air service, has oompleted negotiations for a new airport on the island of South Ronaldshay. South Ron aldshay has hitherto been in the position of having air liners pass daily overhead, sometimes half-a-dozen times, yet -without having air-travel facilities of its own.