Suva In Half
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The Time
Millions of people who have grown up with the air-age still find it possible to be amazed at the extraordinary changes that the jet-age will bring. For the Pacific, the jet-age begins on July 29, when Qantas jet services begin from Sydney across the Pacific to USA and on to London. The whole journey will take 27 hours flying time—the exact time that Kings ford-Smith and Ulm, in the old "Southern Cross”, in 1928, took to fly from California to Honolulu.
Flying-time, Sydney-Nadi in the new Boeings will be three hours and 50 minutes —about half the time it now takes to cover the distance in piston air craft. In 1928 the "Southern Cross’ took 211 hours to fly from Suva to Brisbane —an average of less than 100 miles per hour.
Qantas is naming its seven Boeing 707’s after Australian capital cities—" City of Can berra” Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Hobart.