POST-WAR AVIATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1944, Page 6

POST-WAR AVIATION

NEW TYPES OF PLANES

...... LONDON, January 19. The House of Lords has been debating civil aviation after the war. The Marquess of Londonderry praised the work of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, but said that if it maintained its monopoly we should restrict all private enterprise. If the monopoly were taken away other companies could start preparing for the future. ' Replying for the Government, Lord Beaverbrook agreed that the British Overseas Airways Corporation had a monopoly, but it was for subsidies for overseas air traffic and for nothing else. Private companies could operate air traffic both overseas and inside Britain without any subsidy. Lord Beaverbrook made it clear that the Government had not been idle in producing aircraft suitable for civil aviation. It had begun to design an aii-craft, weighing more than 100 tons, with a speed of more than 250 miles an hour. It would be able to cross the Atlantic in 15 hours, carrying 50 passengers and two tons of mail. Till this type was ready there was another type projected, weighing 38 tons and with a cruising speed of 220 miles per hour. It could easily cross the Atlantic in winter and summer, and could carry 12 passengers and their luggage. This plane would be ready before the end of the war, and could be used for military transport.