HOURLY ATLANTIC PLANES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18867, 19 November 1935, Page 3

HOURLY ATLANTIC PLANES

EUROPE-US. NON-STOP AMERICAN PROPOSALS NEW YORK. Oct. 10. The determination of American aviation interests to forge ahead with plans for non-stop trails-Atlantic passenger flights if agreement •cannot he reached with Imperial Airways over the use of such interi liute liases as the Bermudas, is plainly hinted at in the current number '"' the National Aeronautical Magazine. It .contains a description of plans to use giant seaplanes, which would be twice as large as those being built for the trans-Pacific service, and o'f which there would be so many that one would take off from New 'York for Europe every hour, while a transAtlantic fare of only i'SO would be possible. A service of this kind, which is looked upon as possible by HMO, would, in the opinion of American experts., handle as many passengers as six liners J now do in their regular voyages be-1 I ween the Old World and the New. .\h- clean 1.. .Martin, of Baltimore, who is constructing seaplanes for the ran-American Airways service between California and China, says: "With'a proper allowance of crew. equipment, fuel and oil, a non-stop (rip of 4000 miles can be made with a net payload of nine lons. " It is pointed out that by the "(Trent Circle" route the distance from .New Vorl; to London is lUOfi miles.