AIR GIANTS OF FUTURE.
200-PASSENGER AIACHINES. LONDON. Sept. G. Atlantic flying-boats weighing 250 tons and carrying 200 passengers were forecast by Air H. E. Wimperis, aeronautical adviser to the Australian Commonwealth in an address to the British Association at Dundee. . These giants of the future would have a total horse-power of 36.000, driving tractor and pusher propellers in tandem with 12 motors, he said. “There is little doubt that we shall soon see such craft actively competing with sea transport,” Air Wimperis added. The military aircraft speed, now exceeding 400 miles an hour, would rise still higher.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 4
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97AIR GIANTS OF FUTURE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 4
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