VISION OF AIR FUTURE
" 'Abandon flying near the earth!' ■Such is now the slogan of farseeing technicians. We are about to enter a phase in which giant craft, designed specially for their purpose, Hise till they are ten miles or more above earth's surface. Granted that engines and propellers can operate efficiently ( in this rarefied upper air—aiid tthere is now definite promise of success Sn both these directions —it wiill be possible to attain speeds wlrjch are i out of the question un denser layers of air nearer the ground. This high-altitude air offers a minimum of resistance to rapid movement, and spedially-designed craft, their occupants in totally-en-closed oxygen-fed saloons, will hurtle through it with, their body and wings offering the least passible drag or friction to their own enormously iast motion."—Mr Harry Harper in the Daily Chronicle.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1924, 21 October 1926, Page 7
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138VISION OF AIR FUTURE Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1924, 21 October 1926, Page 7
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