FUTURE AIR TRAVEL
FIFTY-TON MACHINES FOR USE BY 1938 LONDON, November 15. M. Igor Sikorsky, the RussianAmerican air expert, lecturing before the Royal Aeronautical Society, foreshadowed seaplanes weighing up to 50 tons, making possible individual cabins, luxurious lounges, and dining-rooms comparable with those of ocean liners, and cruising at 150 to 200 miles per hour. These should be ready by 1938. Greater speeds were possible, but the size of the earth did not warrant them. The flying altitude of commercial airliners will be 12,000 to 20,000 feet, which is clear of most air disturbances. [M. Igor Sikorsky was one of the earliest constructors of practical aeroplanes, which he built in Russia in 1911. He went to the United States at the end of the war. He has built the largest flying boat in regular service—the "Brazilian clipper."] Jim: Caught a nice (cough) fish. Joe: Sounds as if you caught a cold. Jim: Ah! well! must take the bad with the good. Joe: Rubbish, take Baxter's Lung Preserver and you won't have to worry. —3
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21324, 17 November 1934, Page 15
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