Guinea Airways Lose Their
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Best Machine
THE destruction of their Lockheed “14” aeroplane in Northern Australia, on January 18, while on the regular Adelaide-Darwin run, with the loss of four lives, was the first major disaster suffered by Guinea Airways, Ltd., since the business was established in New Guinea in 1927 —a remarkable record.
Among the men lost were two notable pilots; and one of them, Captain Jukes, was well-known in the New Guinea fly ing services. He left New Guinea over three years ago, and spent some time in America, before settling down in business in Adelaide. He resumed flying compara tively recently.
The destruction of the big Lockheed is
a serious matter for Guinea Airways— not so much because of the financial loss, as because of the difficulty of getting an other “14” from the Lockheed factories, which are very busy on war machines, as well as commercial orders.