AERIAL LIFEBOAT
PLAN TO AID CHANNEL PLANES LONDON, July 30. A proposal for au aerial lifeboat lor emergencies on the,Channel air route was, it is understood, recently placed before the British Government and countries using the route. A considerable time must elapse before any vessel can' reach an aeroplane that is forced down on the sea far front a ship. The plan would provide for the maintenance at Lympe, near Hythe, Kent, of an amphibian rescue aeroplane, which could conic down on the water or on land. It is possible to send an order to the coast from Croydon air station in half a minute. The rescue pilot, within a minute or so of the distress call, could be off at a speed of eighty or ninety miles an hour, while a tug would be able to travel at only about ten miles an hour. The passengers would be transferred to the amphibian, which would ride the water safely until a vessel arrived. Amphibians cannot be used, for cross Channel services because, owing to the extra weight of the ilo-ts, they can not carry a paying load of passengers.
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Evening Star, Issue 20254, 15 August 1929, Page 2
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189AERIAL LIFEBOAT Evening Star, Issue 20254, 15 August 1929, Page 2
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