100-TON AIRLINER
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(By Telegraph.—Press Assn. -Copyright; (Special Correspondent.) LONDON. January 20 A revolutionary form of propulsion will be provided for a great British 100-ton airliner which is now being designed for Britain’s future merchant air service, says the “Daily Mail’s” air correspondent. A 32-ton airliner which is also beiug designed will be ready much sooner. Though smaller, it is expected to be. equal to any foreign competitor at the time it takes the air. » “To get this announcement in its proper perspective,” the correspondent stales, “it should be realized that the smaller liner may not be in service till about 1946-47, and the 100-ton plane may not appear over the Atlantic till after the turn of the ’fifties. It will be a close race with America as to who gets the first 100-tonner actually (lying.. Both aircraft have interesting joints. No plane of such an ambitious character as a 100tonner could be contemplated without allowing for the certainty that petrol engines will be giving way to new forms of propulsion by the time it takes the air. Jet propulsion will not necessarily be the power plant chosen. Civil airliners, unlike military aircraft, will seek safety and economical operation before extreme speeds.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 99, 22 January 1944, Page 5
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204100-TON AIRLINER Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 99, 22 January 1944, Page 5
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