IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 January 1919, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

ROUND-THE-WORLD TRIPS,

WONDERS OF THE FUTURE

LONDON, Jan. 7,

The Daily Chronicle interviewed Mr Holt Thomas, director of an aircraft manufacturing company, whose directorate Major Brancker has just joined. Mr Thomas says: An air jomjney to Australia can now he done at 100 miles per hour, including stoggages. The speed for a Tv-orld journey will soon be 130 miles hourly. A single airman will not fly all the way to New South Wales, but the first man will go to Paris, and find another airman waiting there. In five minutes the mail receptacle will bo transferred to the second machine, which will resume the journey. A threc-huWdred-mile trip is sufficient for any one pilot; It is important to develop an aircooled engine to replace the present water-cooled engine, which becomes faulty isi the Tropics and Antarctic, through the water either boiling or freezing. A trans-Atlantic flight should be accomplished in 1919, hut no seaplane could stand the Atlantic rollers.”

TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT,

LONDON, Jan. 7

_ l4 is like] y that a party of Australian flying men will make an attempt to win the Daily Mail’s £IO,OOO prize for a trans-Atlantic flight. The men are now preparing/ They will use a Handley-Paee machine for the task.