A TAXI SERVICE.
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE. OPERATION IN 25 CITIES. [FROM our own correspondent.] NEW YORK, September 19. A national air taxi service, by means of which residents of twenty-five cities in the United States may summon a piano bv phone, is being inaugurated. The capital of the new company is 2,000,000 dollars.
Orders are being placed for equipment for twenty-five air fields to be used as taxi bases. Faros have not yet bren determined, but it is expected they will not exceed 2s a mile.
Flviug schools will be maintained at each taxi base, and three aviation universities will be administered, one for the East, one for the Middle West and one for tho West; for the complete training of graduate pilots. The company will furnish parts and accessories for planes just as service stations now do for automobiles. The new organisation t!i allied with the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., with which Colonel Lindbergh is associated as executive adviser.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20075, 12 October 1928, Page 15
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