Qantas Empire Airways
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30 Years of Safe Flying With Qantas Empire Airways
IN 1919, while they were making an airroute survey in Northern Australia for the Commonwealth— they used an incredibly ancient Model T Ford or Fords—Messrs. Hudson Fysh and P. J.
McGinnis conceived the idea of opening up this vast country with air services.
Both young men had been members of the Australian Flying Corps.
Backed by local station owners and businessmen they registered, in November, 1920, the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services, Ltd.
That was the beginning of Qantas second to none.
QEA as now Australian Governmentowned but Mr. Hudson Fysh, a vigorous 55-year old Australian, is still with them as chairman and managing director. He is one of the fortunate few whose youthful visions not only came true, but suipassed anything he could n h^ e STlt is*a t £r S cr/ f rom° the Unsuitable”, World War I type of aircraft, all wires and wings, with which Qantas started their company, and the vast fleet of modern airliners and flying-boats which they use to span the oceans and the continents to-day.
A S well as the Kangaroo route to the United Kingdom, Qantas run services to Hong Kong, Japan, Papua-New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and New Hebrides. In Papua-New Guinea their local services have done something to ameliorate the chaos and frustration of the post-war period. It is likely that they will soon be running in temal services in the Colony of Pi] n it has been reported that Captain Hugn Birch is leaving shortly to make another survey flight for Qantas between Fiji and
abandonees running a Regular
Ilf between NeW Caledonia and The original service between Charle ville and Cloncurry and other inland services are now no longer run by Qantas, b t Australians, the overwhelming ma jority of whom have never seen these la £ es hope t 0) know them well only because the young men of Qantas put them on the map away back in the early 20’s when commercial aviation was QEA held an exhibition in during November to mark their 30th hirth day. Whites Aviation, published in Auck land, NZ, devoted the whole of their November issue to telling the story of Qantas, as it was and as it now is.