VISION OF THE FUTURE
AVIATION IN FIFTY YEARS. [ Australian Press Assn.—United Service. J Received July 23, 1 a.m. LONDON, July 22. Sir Alliott Roe gives it as his opinion that within 50 years men will fly to Australia in 24 hours. “We are only at the beginning of aviation,” he states.” The achievement within 50 years of a flight from England to Australia under 24 hours will be commonplace. Machines will travel at tremendous speeds in the upper atmosphere, all flying at altitudes which aeroplanes to-day only reach with difficulty. Aeroplanes will travel like rockets, 400 miles hourly. “We are already designing machines which reach their maximum power at 25,000 feet. Future passengers will travel in hermetically sealed cabins, thus maintaining a normal air pressure of nine pounds per foot. Air travel will supersede other forms because it is more comfortable and is safer. The machines will be multiple-engined and amphibians.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 173, 23 July 1929, Page 7
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