Stage on Sydney-Manila
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Nadzab As Big
Airfield
Stage on Sydney-Manila Service
AVERY interesting development of air transportation is reported from New Guinea. It is stated that prepara tions are being made to bring into full use the large air field which the United States forces, during the Pacific War, constructed at Nadzab in the Markham Valley, about 30 miles above Lae.
It is proposed that the Nadzab ’drome will be used by the big aircraft of Aus tralian National Airways, on a direct ser vice between the principal cities of East ern Australia and the Philippines, where the service will link up with a Pan- American Airways service running be tween North America and East Asia.
The big planes will fly in one day from an Eastern Australian city—probably Sydney—to Nadzab; will remain over night at Nadzab; and will then make an other one-day flight from Nadzab to Manila.
It will be remembered that when the Allied Forces attacked the Japanese, in the vicinity of Lae, Australian and American paratroopers made a mass de scent in the Markham vallev, near Nad zab, and then worked down the Mark ham Valley towards Lae. Soon after that, Americans and Australians built at Nadzab one of the biggest and safest air fields in the South-west Pacific area.
It is understood that Australian National Airways, in planning this ser vice, are acting as the forerunners of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, owned jointly by Britain, Australia and New Zealand, which actually will run the service between Australia and the Philip pines.