THE ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
A DAT AND A HAIF. GERMAN EXPERT'S PLANS. The day when trans-ocean flights between Hamburg and New York will be made in thirty-six hours is not far distant, in the opinion of Dr. Edmund Rumpler, a noted German aerial expert. Dr. Rumpler has devoted the past five years to the preparation of plans for huge aircraft, capable of carrying 136 passengers and seven tons of freight. Addressing the Society for Scientific Aviation at Dusseldorff lately, Dr. Rumpler described the prospects for covering the distance between European and North American ports in a day and a half, allowing four hours for landing at the Azores. He expressed the opinion that an air route between Europe and South America can be laid out with less difficulty than one to North America, since the open stretch from the Azores is 1780 miles, compared with 2455 miles to the United States.
The plans which Dr. Rumpler has evolved for huge aircraft to make the trip call for planes propelled by ten motors of 1000-h.p. each and capable of attaining a maximum speed of 175 miles an hour. The proposed planes would be composed of several unite linked together. , ,_ . ._
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 July 1926, Page 10
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197THE ATLANTIC FLIGHT. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 July 1926, Page 10
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