CATCHING THE CLOCK.
THREE BREAKFASTS IN ONE DAY.
When nir speed travel, as visualised by Sir Alan Cobham, reaches 1000 miles an hour in a few years’ time, the globe can be circled in a single day. But the trouble will be that the traveller, by beating time, will be able to get only breakfast wherever he goes. Sir Alan pointed this _ out to a meeting of the Royal Empire Society, explaining that tire speedy, world-cir-cumnavigators, letwing London soon after breakfast, would arrive in New York in time for breakfast. And in the rest of their world-circuit they would always be catching up to break-fast-time.
The possibility of three _ meals of bacon and eggs a day was pictured by Sir Alan.
The famous aviator added that, as Britain controlled the seas, so must she control the air, because communication was essential to her existence.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 107, 6 April 1932, Page 12
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