“AERIAL TAXIS”
USE OF HELICOPTERS PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT ROOF-TOP HOPS PLANNED (10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 9. A helicopter taxi service which will pick up a group of businessmen from the roofs of their own offices, in Boston and deposit them on office roofs in New York is envisaged by Mr. Samuel -Solomon, president of North-east Air Lines, who disclosed plans for-the post-war use of helicopters for conveying mail and passengers from city roof-tops to aerodromes as an aerial -taxi service. He said that as the initial step he hacl filed to-day with the civil aeronautics board,.- an application for an helicopter - service carrying air-mail express .freight.,between the roof-tops of 400 post offices and railway stations in six New England States and New York. Mr. Solomon said,the service would operate not only between cities and towns but also from congested urban areas to airports. • '• “The helicopter has tremendous possibilities/' he- added: . He envisioned a machine carrying 20 passengers.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21066, 10 April 1943, Page 4
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