AIR LINERS OF THE FUTURE.
"To ensure speed and safety, air liners of the future will be aeroplanes capable of travelling at between 200 and 250 »iles an hour at an altitude of 35,0001'/ (more, than 6J miles), I was told by M. Louis* Gamblanc, an aerial engineer of Paris, who, continue* the Daily Mail correspon' denft at that city, has just sold. to the French Government his rights in an aeroplane motor especially designed to work at a great height. " The problem at the present time," he went on, "i 8 to obtain an aeroplane capable of travelling at great speed and yet able to land with safety. To obtain speed and safety together it is necessary to travel so high np that the, atmosphere offers the minimum.of resistance to the broad-winged surface which allows of safe and slow landing. Life is not possible at the ideal altitude, which I pot 4 about 35,000 ft, without artificial respiration and heating being provided. But. properly equipped, I see no reason why aeroplanes should not reach 46.000 ft, ana more. Aeroplane bodies in the future wjll have to be. hermetically closed/And provided with apparatus for renewing the air." I >
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17380, 31 January 1920, Page 2 (Supplement)
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