OCEAN AIRPORTS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20454, 6 November 1934, Page 1

OCEAN AIRPORTS.

Trans-Atlantic Service in a Year. M. LOUIS BLERIOT'S SCHEME. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copy rigli t. PARIS, November 4. M. Louis Bleriot told a special correspondent of the “ Daily Mail ” that a twice-daily trans-Atlantic air service, bringing London and Paris within eighteen hours of New York, would be inaugurated within a year. M. Bleriot produced plans of floating aerodromes which it is proposed to anchor in a chain across the ocean, each seadrome consisting of a landing platform 500 yards long under which will be an hotel and a restaurant and accommodation for garaging and refuelling the ’planes. Submarine propellers would enable the floating aerodrome to be kept facing the wind, thus facilitating the landing of ’planes. M. Bleriot said that the United States War Department, which was backing the scheme, wished to begin with a trans-Pacific air mail and passenger service, after which it would operate an Atlantic one. It was estimated that the trans-Atlantic services would carry eighty passengers daily in the first year at a fare of £BO, of which £l3 would be paid to the Seadrome Ocean Dock Corporation. which was supplj’ing and maintaining the floating aerodromes. Great Britain and France were reported to be willing to co-operate in placing aerodromes across the Atlantic; and Canada and Japan were to be approached to support the Pacific project.