ROCKET MAIL FROM EUROPE TO AMERICA IS LATEST PROPOSAL.
Hungarian Professor Believes Trip Would Take Half An Hour.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph fcopyrlght.) (Received February 10, 9.35 a.m.) BUDAPEST, February 9. Professor Oberth, whose plans for a rocket trip to the moon are in abeyance, is now conducting trials to shoot a postal packet to America. He believes that if a rocket weighing 120 pounds, measuring fifteen metres in length, is shot from Segesvar, Transylvania, it would land on American soil in half an hour. ! H H @1 IS S as IB H! E S ® IS HI! H ® 13 B SI SI H H H IS @ a® a a S B H H El a Si El a a E
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18991, 10 February 1930, Page 1
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