Show air ail 4 travel continues to be je popular atlantic and pacific spanned by regular service washington D C although the hindenburg has been erased from the timetables and the graf zeppelin has been grounded air travel continues to be a popular method of ocean crossing both the atlantic and the pacific are still spanned by scheduled air services says the national geographic society and the indian ocean is is skirted most of the worlds important seas especially the mediterranean and the caribbean are crisscrossed and outlined outline d by airlines air commuters across the atlantic may be without wings temporarily pora rily but the mail still goes through on planes that hop the south atlantic weekly for regular delivery the french mail line has cut the travel time between paris and brazil to three days touching three continents and crossing parts of seven countries A german line shares responsibility lity with the french for weekly transatlantic air mail routes of airplane contrasts with the usual transportation tempo hawaii guam and manila in the philippines airlines are prominent among the east west li felines which keep great britain in touch with her indies and france with her indochina instead of progressing by broad ocean hops these air routes usually follow coastlines coast lines with port to port overland jumps through dangerous and in hospitable country and overwater nights flights to islands the french line to the orient hugs the northern shores of the mediterranean 1 and the indian ocean then darts overland above india and siam to french indo chinas cainas metropolis tro polis saigon the route from the netherlands follows the same tactics except that it tur turns ns south from bangkok in siam and hops over the dense forests and rich plantations of the malay states sumatra sava ava and borneo with ex otic sounding stops scattered along both sides of the equator singapore Pa lembang batavia ban boeng and Balik papan busy over mediterranean possibly the most flown over sea is the mediterranean with a dozen or so airlines radiating from marseilles se illes rome and athens most of them find their way southward by way of cyprus crete sicily corsica or the balearic islands to european colonies in northern africa and egypt the english channel is likewise a much flown stretch of water at one time a dozen airlines crossed it eleven of them darting fanlike from london toward other european capitals even the ice locked baltic has its aerial shortcuts linking finland denmark and norway with sweden heavy air traffic encircles the gulf of mexico and the caribbean sea linking north america with coastal ajtal astal service on the sister continent to the south one intercontinental tin jump travels the peninsula island isthmus route to the west coast of south america flying over florida cuba jamaica and then making a long overwater hop to colombia and the panama canal zone another arc of air travel fol lows the crescent of the west indies to south americas east coast from miami to nuevitas Nue vitas in cuba port au prince in haiti san juan in puerto rico then southeast over the lesser antilles those sainted specks of british and french territory festooned festoon ed around the caribbean A complete air base has been erected on bermuda for a projected transatlantic service between london and new york this new route will also touch portugal and the azores A more northern route by way of newfoundland has also been surveyed course vary somewhat from trip to trip in order to avoid areas made stormy by weather or politics spectacular service youngest and most spectacular of the boating by air services is the pan american clipper line from california to china the new orient express since april 1937 has been dodging monotony over the non pacific pacific by cleaving the clouds and reaching hong kong one week after departure from san francisco this jaunt from hemisphere to hemisphere requires a jagged southwesterly course to the philippines on the eastern rim of asia then a jump northwest to china with five stops between the american terminus and the asiatic terminus the bases are in three cases tropical islands in which the |