AVIATION
LINERS OF THE FUTURE GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS , LONDON, November 15. Igor Sikorsky, a Russian-American air expert, lecturing at the Royal Aeronautical Institute, foreshadowed seaplanes weighing 10C,Ou0ib, making possible individual cabins, luxurious lounges, and dining rooms comparable with ocean liners, cruising 150 to 200 miles an hour. These should be ready in 1938. Greater speeds were possible, but the size of the earth did not warrant them. The flying altitude of commercial air liners would be from 12,000 ft to 20,000£t, which would clear the majority of air disturbances. BROOK AND MISS LAY' SYDNEY, November 15. A message from Wyndham states that H. L. Brook and Miss Lay, air race entrants, arrived there from Koepang to-day. MR C. P. ULM’S FLIGHT SYDNEY, November 16. (Received Nov. 17, at 0.30 a.m.) A report has been received here that Mr Charles IJlm will leave Vancouver tor Australia next Thursday in a new plane named the Stella Australis. Other members of the crew will be G. Littlejohn and J. Skilling.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19341117.2.86
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 13
Word Count
166AVIATION Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 13
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.