AHEAD OF OUR TIME?

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31339, 8 April 1967, Page 12

AHEAD OF OUR TIME?

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8.0.A.C. was planning to uso the Concord on a round-the-world route as soon as it took delivery °**be AngloFrench supersonic airliner in about dve year • time. Sir Giles Guthrie. 8.0.A.C.-chairman, said in Sydney . . . would take a total time of S 3 hours . . . would bring ail the things that man had ever dreamed of seeing within easy resch, —and ahead were hypersonics at SOM miles an b°ur.—Nows that man bad ever dreamed of seeing within easy resch Not for the Likes of Us, Sir, the Delight Of Supersonic Flight,— Not yet, that is, however it’s foreseeable That this agreeable Experience awaits Us, if we’re spared, And mentally prepared. Flying below the Speed of Sound is so

Intolerably slow! If we’re not able to accelerate, We’ll ALL be late,— For What? Well anyway we’ll make It faster,

Even if it’s Disaster. Our old Victorian Faith we hold unshaken, Progress can’t be mistaken. The quaint old Jets (and Jet Sets) of our Day

are going to give Way,— Thirty-three Hours your Supersonic Ship Takes for the World Round Trip; You’ll see the Lot, your Vortex is your Visit!

Isn’t that Fine? Or it It? You’ll get your Business done, your Sightseeing

through, Quicker than you ever knew; • We’ve got a Duty-free Shop that offers You,

besides, Your own SEALED, PERSONALISED SET of Colour Slides! Nobody LOOKS, while travelling, any More, That’s what the Slides are for. Wait till you get safe Home, then rig your Screen,

Discover where You’ve been! There’s Nothing new in This, Sir, I’m afraid,—

Even without the Aid Of Supersonic Speeds, this is the Way Our Trips turn out To-day . . . But when we’re fired like Bullets through the Air, Why, we’ll be THERE Before there’s Time to serve even one Free Drink I Sir, does that make YOU think ?.