BERLIN TO NEW YORK

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3262, 19 February 1931, Page 3

BERLIN TO NEW YORK

A mystery plane is being secretly built ,in Berlin, and it is expected to fly 700 miles an hour at a height of 35,000 feet. . It will have a doublewalled cabin, with an air space that shuts out cold.

. Screaming, through the thin air 35,000 feet above the earth, at a speed of 11 miles a minute, this new German mystery plane now being 'built by the famous Junkers Company may soon cross from'Berlin to New York in fewer than six hours. Its builders have established a rigid censorship of all news about the superplane, but some details of its construction were recently sent to America, and have been published in Popular Science. It is being built of duralumin, and it resembles ordinary aircraft, streamlined beyond present-day practice, and with landing gear that can be drawn up into the fuselage in flight. If this machine succeeds in making its trans-Atlantic flight it will mean that man’s efforts to annihilate space will have resulted in “ making the sun stand still.” Flying at 11 miles a minute in a westerly direction in the latitude of Berlin and New York, this giant aerial torpedo could keep the sun stationary over its head. On the take-off the craft would climb to the 35-000-foot level at an angle of 45 degrees. A new type of propeller, specially designed to work in thin air, is one of the unusual features of the machine. In order to make the cabin habitable in the extremely low temperatures of high altitudes, the fuselage has been designed like a giant thermos bottle.