AIRCRAFT AND LINERS.
PLAN FOR CO-OPERATION. QUICKER ATLANTIC CROSSINGS. A. and N.Z. PARIS, Dec. 28. The fast 43,500-ton liner He de France is being equipped with a five-ton seaplane for carrying 15 passengers, or, alternatively, two tons of mail, accoi'uing to an announcement made by the president of the Academy of Maritime Affairs. The announcement adds that shipbuilding has so progressed that it is impossible to produce faster or more economical liners. As ships cannot be speeded up. tli3 only way in which the Atlantic crossing can be reduced to four days is to use seaplanes, whereby it is hoped to save 15 hours at each end of the journey.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 9
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