SLIP COACHES
ANOTHER STEP IN TRAVEL.
Before long we may see, as we look up, a flying train passing swiftly between us and the sky (writes an air correspondent of the London NewsChronicle). Successful experiments in towing man-carrying engineless gliders behind powerful motor-driven aeroplanes is now to lead to a fresh series of tests in the United States and Germany, in which strings of speciallyengined aircraft are towed - through the air, carrying pasesngers, mails, and merchandise. In each of the winged coaches forming the sky-train there will be an expert steersman. He will be able, whenever required, to uncouple his machine from the train, while moving at full speed, and guide it down in a long glide to some aeroK drome lying upon the main route that is being followed. One of the advantages of the use of such air-trains, if certain technical problems , can be overcome, will be that passengers and mails can be set down at any intermediate station along a great trunk airway, without the loss of time entailed by the descent of the whole " train."
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3270, 10 March 1931, Page 3
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