HELICOPTER TAXI
(United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) WASHINGTON, April 8 A helicopter taxi service which picks up a group of businessmen from the roofs of their own offices in Boston and deposits them on their office roofs in New York is envisaged by Mr Samuel Solomon, president of North-East Air Lines, who disclosed plans for the post-war use of helicopters conveying mail and passengers from city rooftops to aerodromes as an aerial taxi service. Mr Solomon said that as an initial step there was filed today with the Civil Aeronautics Board an application for a helicopter service, carrying air mail and express freight between the rooftops of 400 post offices and railway stations in six New England States and New York. Mr Solomon said the service would operate not only between cities and towns but also from congested urban areas to airports. He added that the helicopter has tremendous possibilities, and he envisaged a machine carrying 20 passengers.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22009, 10 April 1943, Page 6
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