AIR TRAVEL MARVELS
EXPERT LOOKS 50 YEARS AHEAD )BRITAIN T 0 AUSTRALIA IN DAY ! —_ . ‘(Auslrulian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON, Monday. Sir Alliott V. Roe, of the firm which manufactures Avro airplanes, today expressed the opinion that achievement in aviation was only beginning. “Within 50 years," he said, “a. flight from Britain to Australia in less than 24 hours will be commonplace. “Machines will travel at tremendous speeds in the upper atmosphere. All will fly at an altitude which airplanes today can only reach with dlfliculty. In the future airplanes will travel like rockets at a rate of 400 -miles an hour. “Already machines are being de.signeci which will reach the maximum of their power at 25,000 feet. Passengers will travel in hermetically sealed cabins which will maintain the normal air' pressure 01’. 91b. a foot. i “Air travel will supersede other Iforms because it will be the most 'conifortable and the safest. Multiple!enginod nmphibian‘machlnes will be I used"
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 722, 23 July 1929, Page 9
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161AIR TRAVEL MARVELS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 722, 23 July 1929, Page 9
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