FUTURE OF FLYING
CAPTAIN COSTES’ VIEWS. London,-June I. When Captain Costes, inspector-gen-eral of the French Air Union,' accompanied by his fellow-airman, Lieutenant Bellontc—with whom he flew from Paris to New York last year—flew from Paris to Croydon to-day, a number of air liners escorted them to the, aerodrome. Captain Costes prophesied an -eventual regular Atlantic air service. The machine of the future would fly at a height of seven miles, with the passengers enclosed in an airtight cabin, at a speed of 400 to 500 miles an hour, ho said. They would reach New York from Ciojdon in 10 hours. Speed was the only commodity an air-line had to sell. ■
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1931, Page 5
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