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ing and in London the next; when no part of the earth's surface was more than ba week's journey by air, then the serial age would have done more for the world" than any other iqreation or discovery ever made.The temperament of our "race was ideal for flying The Briton aying, either in peaca or wat did so ycling or Cycle Car
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it was this spirt which would render him Engineer of Daily Mail... invincible in the air, as he had been for centuries on the son. However keen the race for supremacy might become, wa should produce men capable of handling the best machines our constructors could build. What we must now contemplate was that the high-speed transport of the world would be gradually transferred from land and sea to air. This was no longer a romance; it would come, about in a definite period just how long would depend upon the willingness of the public to make use of the aerial services which will soon be ready for them. There were three essential questions:-
(1.)-Can an air service be made safet (2)Can it be made reliable!
(3)-Can it be made to pay ↑
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Strand or Windsor... Storyteller or Pearsons .. Weldon's Journal or Fashions
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of express parcels, and do the journey Cassello
Little Folks This machine Captain or Chamber's Journal in less than three hours. was a logical dyvelopment of such air-London or Woman at Home... we had been using for bombing Nash's or New Magazine.....“ „f. oraft as in the war. The passengers would be Nineteenth Century or Nations! housed in comfortable compartments.
Rariewmu The crew would consist of five persons a pilot, a navigator, a directional wire less operator, & motor mechanic, and an attendant. In the rear there would be space for 250lb. of express parcels. The car would be fitted with side-windows-or portholes, so that the passenger would have a view outwards during the flight. In front there would be a small observa tion platform, from which passengera might, if they wished, obtain an excel-
view on all sides. They would move about freely during the journey. Light refreshments could be served en route, and there would be all the conveniences of modern travel. Tea or a cocktail might be obtainable about mid-Changch for the amenities of life must not be for- gotten even in the air.
**SPEED WITH SAFETY,”
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The express Air Mail machine should play a prominent part in our carly It was specially airway development designed as high-speed mail I- rier for the transport of not more than 100lb express maila. speed would be 70 miles an hour so that the journey from London to Paris could be covered in an hour and a half. It would be able to fly under the most adverse conditions us regards wind or rain-Buch or service, even-
on if the rates were high, would be an enormous con- venience to business men, who, he believ
Later ed, would soon learn to use it. on, he felt certain that we should have": speeds by air as great as 200, 250, or even 300, miles an hour. The comfort of pas sengers would be secured by the use of totally enclosed saloons, in which the air supply could be made independent of the changes ir atmospheric pressure outside, What we must never forget was that it was the speed of aerial travel which would bring us our commercial loads of Our motto must passengers and goods.
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had had no safety."
of large rigid air-
no experience
ships, he was confident that there was a great future before them, particularly on trans-ocean-flights, or of long journeys over undeveloped countries. Before long we should see on the Transatlantic route airships very much greater in size and speedier than any now in existence.
Sceptics might ask how the London- Paris service was to be kept going, with
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of British the only real problem was to help he have no fear of the future. pilot to make a landing at the end of aeronautics. The aircraft industry must receive not only the financial support of the journey. On a well organised airway the Government, but the moral encour we could, combat fog better than could agement of the entire nation:" (Cheers)
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(Cheers.) They were taking steps mercial or pleasure machine, could be
of an international agreement they would silenced so as to be practically inaudible before long have a common code of from the ground On the whole, thrze fore, he felt certain that a properly or signals, would have aerodromes and land- ganised air service could be operated in places at regular intervals, and would
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All these things would be done in order to secure the safety of air travel. (Cheers) teks we should come He trusted also that in the course of to an agreement with our Allies as to; the precise form their activities should
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