Easter Island

Air Route

P. G. Taylor on a Survey Flight

IN another enterprise, calculated to es tablish another Trans-Pacific air route, Captain P. J. Taylor will leave Sydney next month, for Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands and Tahiti. He hopes to show that there is a practicable air route across the South Pacific between Australia and Chile, South America.

The Australian Government will pro vide Captain Taylor with an RAAF Cata lina, which he already has tested. His crew of six men has not yet been chosen.

Captain Taylor plans to make use of Easter Island, between French Oceania and Chile, as a stopping place, but the rest of the route is subject to survey.

There are no islands between Easter and the South American coast, a distance of 3,000 miles.

In 1945, in a flying-boat, Captain Tay lor surveyed the Trans-Pacific route.

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French Oceania, and thence westwards via Fiji. This time, he is seeking a more southerly track between the Ameri cas and French Oceania.

Later, Captain Taylor surveyed the Trans-Indian Ocean route, via Cocos Island and Madagascar, between Aus tralia and Africa, which would be used by Australia for communication with Europe, if Southwest Asia were closed against her.

“Bill” Taylor is held in high regard in Sydney, where he was a distinguished associate of Kingsford Smith. He is a director of Trans-Oceanic Airways.