LONDON TO SYDNEY IN 29 HOURS
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AIR TRAVEL OF THE FUTURE
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Received Thursday, 11.45 a.m. LONDON, May 1. "Flying Wing" airliners cruising at 615 miles hourly at 40,000 feet, and capable of carrying 72 passengers, were f orecast on Empire routes within ten years by Major Frank B. Halford, chairman of the de Havilland Engine Company, Limited, addressing the Royal Society of Arts. These airliners would fly between London and Sydney, with five sto^s, in twenty-nine hours, of which twenty-two and a-half would be in the air, for a single fare of £155. Six such airliners could carry as many across the Atlantic yearly as the Queen Mary. The aircraft would weigh about 85 tons and have four jet engines within a thin arrowhead shaped wing, each giving a 35501b thrust at 40,000 feet.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1946, Page 5
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