IN NEAR FUTURE
LONG-RANGE AIR SERVICES. Aeroplanes with a range of 4000 miles and carrying a paying load will be ready in a. lew months, Colonel Lindbergh told the Congress aircraft committee, a Washington message states. He. strongly urged that transatlantic and transpacific services were feasible. . . I iiture Long-distance flying, he said, would ho at fairly high altitudes with supercharged cabins or supercharged cockpits, or both. Transocean planes would fly above storm areas. Planes now under construction could start transocean services early next year, Colonel Lindbergh added. He does not believe in the permanent feasibility of anchored ocean aerodromes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 288, 2 November 1934, Page 14
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99IN NEAR FUTURE Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 288, 2 November 1934, Page 14
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