THREE BREAKFASTS.
Circling the Globe by Air in One Day. When air speed travel, as visualised by Sir Alan Cobham, reaches 1000 miles an hour in a few y-ears’ time, the globe can be circled in a single day. But the trouble will be that the traveller, by beating time, will be able to get only breakfast wherever he goes. Sir Alan pointed this out to a meeting of the Royal Empire Society, explaining that the speedy- world-circum-navigators, leaving London soon after breakfast, would arrive in New York in time for breakfast. And in the rest of their world-circuit they would always be catching up to breakfasttime.
The possibility of three meals of bacon and eggs a day’ was pictured by Sir Alan.
The famous aviator added that, as Britain controlled the seas, so must she control the air, because communication was essential to her existence.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 379, 22 March 1932, Page 1
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