FLYING LUXURY HOTEL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XLIX, Issue 9592, 24 August 1949, Page 3

FLYING LUXURY HOTEL

travel “backs to the engine.” As the liner flies at very great altitudes, cloud will probably be the only view from the windows for the greater part of the journey, but the passengers may follow the air-liner’s route by an illuminated chart on a screen at the end of the main compartment. When they get tired of looking at this the compartment will become a cinema, films being shown from a projection room behind the entrance to the section.

More passengers will be accommo-

HUGE NEW BRITISH LAND PLANE

dated in two other compartments, one on each side of the fuselage just ahead of the wings. The mid-section of the air-liner will be divided into two decks, a sweeping staircase leading up to a spacious cocktail lounge, lined with couchy seats and with a small bar in one corner. A large dining-room with seating and tables for 30 diners will provide a comfortable and roomy lounge and reading-room when meals are not being served. The Bristol Brabazon, with a structure weighing about 40 tons, is a flying hotel. Britain’s Bristol Brabazon airliner is not only the largest land plane in the world, but it is also the most advanced, owing to her control system, which has a new method of power operation and a new device for protecting the structure if the a ; rcraft, flies into a violent air disturbance.

Capable of accommodating over 200 day passengers if required, and 100 on the London-New York journey, she is the world’s most comfortable land-plane. A full-scale v.ooden model of a possible t layout shows the main passenger compartment in the rear section of the fuselage. Passengers will probably