LINER TO CARRY LARGE SEAPLANE.
FRANCE TO SHORTEN TRANS-ATLANTIC TRIP BY THIRTY HOURS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 29, 9.15 a.m.) PARIS. December 28. The fast 43,560-ton liner lie de France is being equipped with a five-ton seaplane for carrying fifteen passengers, or, alternatively, two tons of mail, according to an announcement by the President of the Academy of Maritime Affairs. He adds that shipbuilding has so progressed that it is impossible to produce faster or more economical liners, as the ships cannot he speeded up. The only way in which the Atlantic crossing can be reduced to four days is to use seaplanes, by which he hopes to save fifteen hours at each end.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18349, 29 December 1927, Page 1
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