OCEAN TO OCEAN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 28 July 1928, Page 10

OCEAN TO OCEAN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS

JOURNEY ACROSS STATES BY TRAIN AND PLANE By the co-operation of airplanes and trains, passengers in the near future will be able to cross from New" York to Los Angeles in two days instead of four or five. Under the proposed new service passengers will spend the hours of daylight flying at 90 to 100 miles an hour in tri-motored 14-seater airplanes, and at night will continue their journey in sleeping-cars on the train, taking to the air again after breakfast. Meals will be served In the train or at the landing grounds, but a buffet service will be maintained aboard the airplanes. The stages of the journey will be as follow: Leave New York in the evening, travelling overnight on the Pennsylvania Railway to Colombus, Ohio. Breakfast on train. r By airplane to St. Louis; land for luncheon. By airplane from St.. Louis to Wichita, Kansas. ; Night journey on Santa Fe Railway to a landing-ground in New Mexico. By airplane to Los Angeles, arriving in the afternoon. The length of the route is 3,000 miles, half of which will be covered by air. It is intended later to organise a number of subsidiary feeder routes to link up with the main east-to-west artery. Other U.S. railways are studying the possibility of using aviation as an ally, and it Is predicted that soon all important cities in the States will be linked up with the rail and air Transcontinental route. A new company, Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., has been formed with a capital of £1,000,000. to operate the service, and has behind it the resources of the two railways concerned, the Wight and Curtiss aircraft manufacturing companies, and the powerful banking group of Eflair and Co., New York.