ROCKET'S FUTURE
From Standpoint oi War FAMOUS AIRMAN'S VIEW NEW YORK, Jvme 6. Colonel Lindbergh, in a message from hi3 Kentish home, read to Clark University students at Worcester, Mass., wrote: — ""From the standpoint of war, wc must consider the fact that roekets may carry explosives faster than the aeroplane' and further than the projectile. "In an unguarded moment a rocket enthusiast might prophesy that we shal'. eventualiy travel at speeds governed only by the aeceleration which the hu(man body can stand. "Therefore, iu roclceting between America and Europe we shall aecelerata halfway across the ocean and decelerate ;the other half. j "Qr we may even point the roeket," jcontinued Colonel Lindbergh, "at an- ' other planet, without regard to fuel suppiy or landing faeilities. " Colonel Lindbergh declared that the 'rocket experiments conducted by Professor H. Goddard, of Clark University, may have a far-reaching effect on civilisation. "From the standpoint of commerce we must look to the rocket if we hope to attain transport speeds exceeding a few huudred miles per hour. "We cannot state what speeds or ranges tho rocket may attain, but it is not restricted by the rotation of an engine or dependence upon the atmos phere-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 146, 8 July 1937, Page 5
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