COMPOSITE PLANES
LONG FLIGHT PLANNED THE MERCURY’S SUCCESSOR. OVERNIGHT ATLANTIC SERVICE ' (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 17. The second North Atlantic crossing by the Mercury, originally scheduled for this week, has been postponed and plans for an alternative flight of much greater length are being considered. Meanwhile designs for a successor to the Mercury are in an advanced stage at the Short Factory, in Rochester. The successor is conceived as a land plane, with a fully retractable under-carriage which probably will be launched from a land plane “porter” craft instead of from a flying-boat like the Maia. She will be able to carry one ton of mails overnight between London and New York. The maximum speed of the new land-plane will be more than 300 miles an hour, and her cruising speed, against a steady 40 miles an hour wind, approximately 270 miles on hour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1938, Page 7
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150COMPOSITE PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1938, Page 7
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