ATLANTIC AIR LINERS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 438, 20 May 1937, Page 7

ATLANTIC AIR LINERS

America Builds Planes Air travel across the Atlantic at. I such speeds that one could: dine ini New York, breakfast in London .and dine again in New York is toreshadowed by the specificatons of the two- new’ stratosphere transport planes which Pan-American Airway’s bias: in course of engineering development at the plant of the- Boeing Airplane Company at Seattle. 'These four-engined aircraft are to have cabins s' ressed to withstand pressures of 61b. -to the square inch, sufficient for reguLr operation at altitudes of from four to eeven miles They will be able to operate, without increase of supercharging, up to 36,OOOlt. At these high lyvt-ls the comparative rarity of the air will o:;\r so little resistance .that cruising speed, on half the 5000 horsepower available, Is expected to exceed 260 miles an hour. The cabins will be arranged for both day end night use. On night schedules they will accommodate 18 passengers in berths and eight in luxurious sleeping chairs. By day they will-have 32 lounge t eats. Range is set at 4000 miles as an air mail-express plane. It will Repend, in, passenger service, on the number of passengers, plus the amount of cargo carried. In any case it is deemed to offer ample margin tor single_hop service across the North Atlantic. The great reserve power of the planes and the fact tha't they will be used in the substratosphere and thus conserve fuel makes the outloo-k for Atlantic service differ radically from that over the Pacific. In the wes‘, Martin flying-boats of 52,000111. are in operation and six still larged flying-boats are under construction by the Boeing company for Pan-American Airways. These are IO weigh, gross 82,0001 b, The st rat ospher-e Atlantic planes, plans for which wer e revealed recently by Juan Trippe, president of the airline, are, however, low-winged land types. Both range and specifierf performance, even with partial engine failure, have made it possible to feave out of account water land, ings.