Rooftop Air Taxi Service by Helicopter
Received Friday, 8.20 p.m. NEW YORK, April 9. A helicopter taxi service which will pick up groups of businessmen from the roofs of their own offices in Boston and deposit them on the office roofs of New York is envisaged by Samuel Solomon, president of Northeast Air Lines, who disclosed plans for the post-war use of helicopters conveying mail and passengers from city roof-tops to aerodromes as an aerial taxi service. He said as an initial step, he tiled to-day with the Civil Aeronautics Board, an application for a helicopter service carrying air mail and express freight between tbe roof-tops of 400 post offices and railway stations in the 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, and added that the helicopter has tremendous possibilities and he envisioned a machine carrying twenty passengers,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 85, 10 April 1943, Page 5
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