Flying Train
LATEST AIR MARVEL THREE PLANES COUPLED By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 12.43 p.m. BERLIN, Sunday. A flying train for long distances is the latest amazing aviation plan of Germany. It consists of three airplanes connected with long hawsers and ingenious couplings.
The “locomotive airplane” is a super-powered machine to which others are coupled. The idea is to make possible the construction of giant air-liners, which has hitherto been impracticable, owing to the difficulty of heavily-laden planes in taking off.
A “flying tug” will lift the liners off the slip by a hawser from midair.
The chief pilot, Herr Goebedinkel, will give a public demonstration on Monday, for which he is using two glider machines.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 324, 9 April 1928, Page 9
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