FLYING THE ATLANTIC.
Several well-known aviators have informed the Daily Chronicle that they fully agreed with Mr. Claude Grahame--White's expression, of opinion that within twenty years it would be possible to cross the Atlantic in fifteen hours travelling in a luxurious aerial Pullman with_ accommodation for dining and sleeping. It remained with Mr. C. B. Hucks, the first Englishman to loop the loop, to prophesy that this momentous milestono of progress in aeronautics would be passed within two 1 years from now. He pointed out that a speed of 140 miles an hour had already been attained, and recently a German airman succeeded in remaining in the air for over sixteen hours, and that a flight when sixteen persons were taken up was recently reported from St Petersburg. "Crossing the Atlantic," said Mr. Hucks, "will be exactly like looping the loop, First one man will do it, then perhaps some months will elapse before an attempt is made by a. second man, and when the second man has been successful others will see that the feat is not the accomplishment of just one man, and a. whole procession will follow."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1914, Page 10
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FLYING THE ATLANTIC.
Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1914, Page 10
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