’PLANES WITHOUT PILOTS.
TRAVEL IN SUPER-GALES. Br Tel«r»M>.—Prw, Received Dee. 10, 5.5 p.tn. London, Dec. 9. The Daily Chronicle’* aeronautical correspondent states that result, are being obtained by wirele.s control of pilotlees aeroplanes. Recent studies regarding the existence of vast super-gales blowing at an immense height may vastly quicken international communications. A pilot amending 30,000 feet found himself in an airstream rushing 200 miles an hour. It is believed these super-gales travel across the oceans at cyekmic speed. Experiments are now being made in connection with a small pilotless aeroplane guided by wireless into one of these cyclones, which would set as an automatic carrier at a speed of 250 t* 300 miles an hour, earryiwg argent documents from Europe to America i eight hours, or from London to Paris in'one hour.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1922, Page 4
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134’PLANES WITHOUT PILOTS. Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1922, Page 4
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