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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8178, 3 May 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

Flying will soon bring some big developments that are stiil inconceivable. Latest files of English newspapers point cut that we now possess aeroplanes which carry a crew of seven and passengers to tiie number of 30; which climb to a height of 10,000 feet; which travel at a speed of 100 miles an hour; and which can make a journey of 1200 miles with a stop. That being so, the operational side of the commercial air service presents the only remaining problems. “The air traveller of the future will have no desire to take part in a circus." He will want assurance for example, that if he runs into a log he can count on making a safe land fall. This assurance will be guaranteed by the provision of anchored airships above the fogs. The temporarily “wandered” air liner will get its bearings from the stationary airship, will set its pianos to the proper gliding angle, and will ro make its desired tend fall by dead reckoning of course and speed. No doubt it will be fitted with at least three sets of independent engines, and it will carry at least two competentpilots and 'chief engineers to (guard against any sudden failure cf the human element.