NEW ITALIAN PLANE
SIX MILES A MINUTE FUTURE ATLANTIC SERVICES (Wireless Broadcast.) NEW YORK, .Inly 21. Italy is /now building nn aeroplane capable of a speed of 800 kilometres, about V,7~) miles, an hour, Signor Luigi Care, director-general of the Savoia Hydroplane Co., said when ho arrived here on the liner Roma to-day. The new plane, he said, will carry about 30 passengers, and will be propelled by engines of 6000 horse-power. He did not believe that Northern Atlantic, nir routes would over prove practicable, because of adverse Weather conditions on the American side, but he predicted that within five years there would be regular scheduled services across the South Atlantic, — San Francisco Examiner—2AC.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16704, 23 July 1928, Page 8
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