POLAR FLIGHT
AMERICAN’S ANTICIPATION. SIX-ENGINED PLANES BEING BUILT. By Telegraph—P -~s Association— Copyright. LONDON, June 29. Colonel Edgar Gorrell, president of the American Air Transport Association, who was a passenger by the Yankee Clipper (which has opened the North Atlantic service), said in an interview that he expected to see highflying aircraft- flying regularly between America and Australia, via the South Pole within 10 years. He thought that a North Polar route would also be regularly used for commercial flying. He added that aircraft with six engines were already being built in the United States.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1939, Page 7
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95POLAR FLIGHT Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1939, Page 7
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