Four Hours For Tasman Flight Is Predicted
(Special) AUCKLAND, Saturday. Views regarding the probable development of Tasman flying Were expressed by Captain J. W. Burgess, chief pilot of Tasman Empire Airways, who is going to a position in Baltimore, United States. He declared in an interview that the Tasman service will offer largely a choice between flyingboats and strato-liners with pressuresealed cabins flying at 20,000 to 25,000 feet. Flying-boats would probably develop into freighters with strato-liners. The present Tasman travelling of eigh! to nine hours would be reduced to four.
Captain Burgess added that stratoliners had been used overseas for some years. He mentioned also the possibility of pushing up flying-boats into the sub-stratosphere, and thought that bigger flying-boats would be made.
Regaining “silent developments” in aviation during the war, Captain Burgess said that people were more likely to be surprised at the speed of planes after the war than anything else.
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Northern Advocate, 8 March 1943, Page 5
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