PARIS has a scheme for speeding up air travel. Passengers from London, paradoxically, spend more time on the ground than in the air getting from West End to Croydon and from Ls Bourget to their destination. To save an hour’s delay at the French end, an architect has put on paper this Wellsian dream by which planes could fly direct to the city and land on a platform soaring 600ft above the Seine. The platform, 1,000yds long, would be centred on a mighty tower near Notre Dame. Supporting the track at its outer ends would be two sweeping rings resting on 18 skyscrapers. By letting flats and offices in the buildings, the aerodrome may possibly pay for itself. The whole device would be swivelled to the direction of the wind.

Evening Star, Issue 23113, 12 November 1938, Page 7

PARIS has a scheme for speeding up air travel. Passengers from London, paradoxically, spend more time on the ground than in the air getting from West End to Croydon and from Ls Bourget to their destination. To save an hour’s delay at the French end, an architect has put on paper this Wellsian dream by which planes could fly direct to the city and land on a platform soaring 600 ft above the Seine. The platform, I,oooyds long, would be centred on a mighty tower near Notre Dame. Supporting the track at its outer ends would be two sweeping rings resting on 18 skyscrapers. By letting flats and offices in the buildings, the aerodrome may possibly pay for itself. The whole device would be swivelled to the direction of the wind.