AERIAL TORPEDOES
FOR CARRIAGE OF MAILS A FRENCH INVENTION. SPEEDY AND CHEAP. 1Y CA BLB—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGUT Deceived 9.55 a.m. to-day. PARIS, Dec. 2. The Science Academy is studying a project to use aerial torpedoes to speed up postal services. The inventors, M. Hirschauer, chief engineer of the Government aeronautic services, and M. Talon, engineer to the Midi railway, propose the construction of aerial tubes suspended from plyons containing double tracks, over which torpedoes, each weighing 250 pounds and carrying 50 pounds of mails, could be driven in a speed ox 275 miles per hour. The inventors estimate that they' could shoot two tons of mail matter per hour through tubes at a cost of three farthings petpound.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 January 1928, Page 5
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118AERIAL TORPEDOES Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 January 1928, Page 5
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