BRITAIN'S CIVIL AIRWAYS AT WAR - Little has been heard during the war of the great effort which Britain's civil airmen have made in the common cause. They have kept open the great air routes between the countries of the Commonwealth and Empire and the Allied Nations. Using both landplanes and flying boats they have transported between various theatres of war large numbers of official passengers engaged on urgent matters in the war effort, and great quantities of vital war supplies for which the first consideration has been, not bulk, but speed of delivery. They have, in fact, performed in the
BRITAIN'S CIVIL AIRWAYS AT WAR - Little has been heard during the war of the great effort which Britain's civil airmen have made in the common cause. They have kept open the great air routes between the countries of the Commonwealth and Empire and the Allied Nations. Using both landplanes and flying boats they have transported between various theatres of war large numbers of official passengers engaged on urgent matters in the war effort, and great quantities of vital war supplies for which the first consideration has been, not bulk, but speed of delivery. They have, in fact, performed in the air services similar to those which Britain's merchant seamen have carried out on the surface of the sea. One of the finest achievements of Britain's merchant airmen during the war has been the establishment of a regular two-way service with Liberator aircraft across the North Atlantic between Scotland and Canada. Before the war many experts judged such a service to be impossible, even during summer months. crews, working to the requirements of Transport Command, have maintained the service in both directions, summer and winter alike. Another contribution of to the war effort has been made on the ground. Factories have been set up to service and repair used and damaged aircraft engines and damaged propellors for the operational squadrons of the Picture (issued 1945) shows - Passengers leaving the waiting room at Whitchurch airport to bourd a Frobisher airliner of Only passengers engaged in the war effort are carried during wartime, Royal Air Force
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