FUTURE IN AIR

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13963, 13 August 1919, Page 2

FUTURE IN AIR

NEW YORK.— Regular -trans Atlantic aerial travel will become a neaJjity within three; years, frfi. interest dxir aviationi as in time of, war is conltiniued in time of peace, declaiped Lieut.-Oommander Albert C Read, "ddpper" of the N€4, at a dinner given by the American Flying dub in honour of the' airmen who crossed the Atlantic.

"Anyone who says that we will never attain an altitude of 60,000 feet, that. wje will merer be able to cross to Etoirope in the forenooni and return) in thJet (afternoon, .that we will never be able to accomplish these things that -appear impossible now, is a most courageous person, wdth a courage shnilar to those m the-olden day®, who said that iron ships wouldl ine'Ver float,", asserted Commander Read. "Regarding' the radio, the results obtained by the radio officer on the NO4 undoubtedly broke many previous records. He senlt messages* over 700 miles. TTe .heard Boston taJkiing over 1000 ■nautical miles. He copied a long message sent from the George Washington, when approaching Brest, France, from 1175 miles away. He heard station^, calling other filiations 1300 miles away."