STEAM AEROPLANE
WILL IT CARRY ,500? Steam made the railways possible and gave power to. ships, aud it seems as though it may take its place, in the air. Cables have already told of successful flights by a plane in America and .of experiments elsewhere with steam-engines for aircraft. Now comes the news from Germany that designs exist for a steam-driven plane which could carry 500, people. The type of engine used for. such a giant would be , the turbine, and oil fuel would be used to' generate the steam. The idea of a steam-driven plane for 500 passengers is not so fantastic as it may sound; the chief difficulty is one of finance. Some years ago the great German plane, Do X, flew with 170 people on board, and with fewer passengers it flew to America. But it was much too costly in operation to be a commercial success, and the initial and operation costs of the proposed new giant will no doubt be against it, but the steam plane is sure to come.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)
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