The possibility of flying to the moon in 48 hours was discussed In a lecture iu Paris recently by M. Esnault-Pelterie, the aeronautical expert (according to a report in Aviation). He said that the rapid progress in aeronautics made this possibility reasonable in the not distant future. He out that the shell fired by Big Bertha was discharged at a speed of 1531 yards a second, and rose to an altitude of 18.6 miles. It was only necessary to acquire an initial speed of 12,230 yards a second, and to provide some means of maintaining this indefinitely by an explosive system within the projectile, similar in principle to the skyrocket, and it would be possible, M. Esnault-Pelterie asserted, to fly from Paris to New York in 23min Bsec, round the world in Ihr 26min, and to the moon and back in 96 hours.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3993, 23 September 1930, Page 52
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