AERIAL TORPEDOES
PROJECT TO SPEED UP POSTAL SERVICES
Paris, January 3. The Science Academy is studying a project to use aerial torpedoes in order to speed up postal services. The inventors are M. Hirschauer, chief engineer of the Government aeronautic services, and M. Talon, engineer to the Midland Railway. They propose the construction of aerial tubes, which will be suspended from pylons containing double tracks, over which the torpedoes, each weighing 2501 b. and carrying 501 b. of mail matter, could be driven .at a speed of 275 miles an hour. The inventors estimate that they could shoot two tons of mail matter an hour through the tubes at a cost of Jd. per lb.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 82, 5 January 1928, Page 11
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115AERIAL TORPEDOES Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 82, 5 January 1928, Page 11
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