TASMAN FLYING
Post-War Development
Expected
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 8. Views regarding the probable development of Tasman flying were expressed by Captain J. W. Burgess, chief pilot of Tasman Empire Airways, who is going to a new position in Baltimore, U.S.A. Captain Burgess declared in an interview that the Tasman service will offer largely a choice between flying-boats and stratosphere liners with pressure-sealed cabins flying at 20,000 to 25,000 feet. The flying-boats would probably develop into freighters. With stratosphere liners. the present Tasman, travelling time of eight to nine hours would be reduced to four hours. Stratosphere liners bad been used overseas for some years, said Captain Burgess. He mentioned also the possibility of pushing, up flying-boats into the substratosphere. Bigger flying-boats would be made. Regarding “silent developments" in aviation during the war, Captain Burgess said that people were more likely to he surprised at the speed of planes after the war than by anything else.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 139, 9 March 1943, Page 3
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157TASMAN FLYING Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 139, 9 March 1943, Page 3
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