AIRCRAFT OF FUTURE
SPEED AND CAPACITY REMARKABLE POSSIBILITIES LONDON. Oct. 17 According to the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, Mr. Igor Sikorsky, the American flying-boat designer, in a speech to the Aeronautical Society in Berlin, foreshadowed 100-ton, 100-passenger flying-boats for the Atlantic service. He stated that they would cross the Atlantic in between 45 and 18 hours. 'They would hare a speed of 200 miles an hour, and a range of 5000 miles. Dr. Heinkel, designer of Heinkel military aircraft, many of which have been used by General Franco's forces in Spain, said that aeroplanes travelling at the speed of sound were a possibility. Flying speeds had increased from 25 ,tq 300 miles an hour during the past 30 years. Aviation experts were now planning machines to reach a speed of 450 miles an hour. The closer aeroplanes got to the speed of sound the more dependent they would be on temperatures and heights.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23175, 22 October 1938, Page 14
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