TWELVE HOURS TO NEW YORK.

Cromwell Argus, Volume LXIII, Issue 3250, 13 February 1933, Page 2

TWELVE HOURS TO NEW YORK.

If the claims of a German Inventor can be substantiated, it may be possigle before long to fly from England to New York across 3000 miles of the Atlantic In about twelve hours. The new Junkers plane, upon which engineers have been at work for more than two years, Is designed to have a speed of between 300 and 400 miles an hour when six miles above the surface of the earth. One great problem facing aircraft designers is that the air grows rapidly rarer and thinner for every hundred feet above the surface. In a rare atmosphere it is difficult to obtain high speeds since the propeller has so little to grip. That is why in the Schneider Trophy race pilots always fly low. So confident are the Germans that they have solved this and other problems of great speed at high altitudes that Captain Hamm has already gone to the Berlin works to prepare for a flight from Berlin to New York, which he hopes to accomplish in a little more than twelve hours. At heights such as six miles the air is too rare to support life, and the pilot sits in a hermeti-cally-sealed compartment supplied with oxygen. So great, too, is the cold that his clothes and even the knobs and levers of the machine are warmed by electricty.