ATOM-DRIVEN AIRCRAFT
IN OPERATION WITHIN TEN YEARS NZPA—Reuter—Copyright THE HAGUE. May 26. Atom-driven aircraft will be used on civil airlines within 10 years, said the president of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Dr Albert Pleeman, to-day. He added that research in atomic energy for aircraft' was far ahead of schedule. Jet-propelled aircraft would be used by civil airlines within seven years. Then “we shall see a period of planes flown by atomic energy, which means that any distance can be covered without intermediate landings.” Dr Pleeman said the present speed of 250 miles an hour would be doubled.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27092, 28 May 1949, Page 7
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