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MARCH 21, 1940 271 HERE and THERE Fighters for Scandinavia JT is announced that the Vultee Co. has received an order for144 Vanguards, its fast single-seater fighter powered with a Pratt and Whitney Twin-Row Wasp engine. Fifty extraengines have also been ordered and the contract figure is said to be $8,000,000 (about ^1,600,000). It is also reported thatthe Norwegian Air Commission in the United States has pur- chased "more than 50" Curtiss P 36 pursuits. Hannibal Search Abandoned THE search for the Imperial Airways liner Hannibal, whichwas lost near Jask on the Iranian coast on March 1, has been abandoned. Previous reports, which stated that wreck- age of the aeroplane had been found, were incorrect as the wreckage proved to be that of an old boat. No information on the cause of the accident is yet available. It must be pre- sumed that the lives of the four passengers and four crew have been lost. The mail from India, Colombo and Goa has also been lost and that transferred at Jask from the preceding aeroplane. British Overseas Airways Corporation A NNOUNCEMENTS which have lately been made complete A the appointments to the board of the British Overseas Airways Corporation. The board now consists of; The Hon. Clive Pearson, chairman; Mr. Irvine Geddes, deputy chairman; Mr. W. L. Runciman, director-general (chief executive member); and Mr. Harold Brown and Mr. Gerard d'Erlanger. The British Overseas Airways Act, 1939, says: "The Cor- poration shall consist of a chairman, deputy-chairman and such other number of members, not being less than nine nor more i£an fifteen, as the Secretary of State may from time to time think fit . . . . " but apparently action has been taken to change this. Japanese Accident THE wreckage of the Japanese airliner which has been miss-ing since March 7 has been sighted on the side of Mount Nanasei in Formosa. Ground relief parties have left to give aid if possible to the six passengers and crew of two. Trans-Tasman Air Service THE Air Ministry announces that the Governments of theUnited Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand have agreed to the commencement of the Trans-Tasman air service in Aprilwith a frequency of one return flight each week. Aolearoa has already made several flights and the second flying boat for theservice, Awarua, is expected in New Zealand in the very near future. Pooled Services to Scandinavia AS from March 1 the K.L.M. Royal Dutch Air Lines com-menced to operate a new summer schedule. There will be no less than four services daily in each direction between London and Holland. These services are to be operated in pool by K.L.M., A.B.A. Swedish Air Lines and D.D.L. Danish Air Lines. The K.L.M., A.B.A. and D.D.L. will operate three services daily between England and Scandinavia via Holland bringing back the service to peacetime frequency. Chief among these services to Scandinavia is the combined K.L.M.-A.B.A. Scandinavian Air Express which will connect London with Stockholm, the Swedish Capital, in just over eight hours- including stops at Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Malmo. At Stockholm connections will be available for Finland by A.B.A. and Aero O/Y. Finnish Air Lines, and also for Moscow via Riga by A.B.A. and Aeroflot Russian Air Lines. This service is known as the Moscow Air Express. Twin-engined Douglas DC3 and four-engined Focke Wulf Condor airliners, seating 21 and 26 respectively, will be used exclusively on these routes. Light refreshments are served on all lines and a three-course luncheon on the Scandinavian Air Express. PLOTTING THEIR LAST COURSE ? Picture taken a short time ago in the map room at the headquarters of National Air Communications, which the Air Ministry has decided to dissolve.
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