RECORD FLIGHT.
NEW YORK, May 13. The new P5l Mustang fighter broke the trans-continental speed record, flying from Los Angeles to New York in six hours 31 minutes 30 seconds, including a stop of six minutes 25 seconds at Kansas City lor i efuelling. aircraf’Femployees NEW YORK, May 13. A comprehensive plan to provide long-term employment after the war for a great many of the 4,500,000 persons now connected with the aviation industry in the United States was proposed by Mr Henry Kaiser in an address to the Convention of the CIO. United Steelworkers. His plan would involve the establishment of from three to five thousand air terminals for the operation of personal ’planes. Each terminal would be operated as a separate business unit, under unified supervision. Mr Kaiser pointed out that .such a network would bring virtually every area in the United States into such close contact that an individual flier would be able to cover the nation in the air in i hops of 25 to 50 miles. He predicted that 50,000 personal aeroplanes would • Ibe sold in the' first two years after I the war and a million ’planes nn 10 ■ years.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1944, Page 5
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