AIR SPEED PREDICTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 10 April 1928, Page 5

AIR SPEED PREDICTION

1000 MILES AN HOUR Airplanes in (J>(*. nnl far distant futnro will (ravel 1000 mi!os an hour, ii was predicted by Majui -I lem-ral J. If. Me lirirn. C.R., C'.NI.(!.. D.S.D., former Royal Air Force flying officer, ami for (lie past seven years president- of llie Canadian Aviation League and head of the cftfumrivial aviation service of Canada, in an address at the aviation luncheon of the Canadian Club. Hotel Re] in out.

General MePricn said his statement Wyes made in. all earnestness, pointing oni that it was only a. few years ago that a person would have been ridiculed had he even sucgested man could llv at 100 or 200 miles"an hour. Oeneral Mcßrien said that during the lasj twelve months aviation had made grealer strides than during any previous period. The outstanding flights, tie said, were Lindbergh's, OhambeiTin's. and P.yrd's crossing of the Atlantic, and Pert ilinkler's flight from England to Australia. He said the Pritish Empire was a little behind in the development of airplanes and airways, in comparison with the number of nlanes and miles of air ways in use by Germany and France, but [hat an ambitious programme for <;lobecircling routes was being worked out. In this programme Canada is taking her part. Oeneral McPrien sullied. H is hoped, he wenl on. to have an airline soon connecting incoming ships at Halifax with Poslon and New York.