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FROM THE ARCHIVESep 11, 1932·Washington, District of Columbia

TEN MILES A MINUTE

Scanned from Evening Star, Sep 11, 1932
TEN MILES A MINUTE
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TEN MILES A MINUTE A MILE IN SIX SECONDS HOW fast can we fly Is it possible for airplanes to travel at speeds of seven and eight hundred miles an hour. Will we board the air liner of the future in. New York and be in San Francisco in a little more than one hour or in London in three hours Probably not and at least not for many years to come is the answer of Dr George W Lewis director of aeronautical research of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics a Government organization devoted to deter mining new and basic facts about the science of flight. It has been found that there is a definite limitation on what we may expect from air planes as they are now constructed and th fastest planes now built are rapidly approaching this limit of speed beyond which they cannot go says Dr Lewis Furthermore we don't yet know whether the human body is strong enough to stand be ing hurled through the air in the cabin of the iast airplane of the future at a speed of more than 600 miles an hour.

No matter how fast our airplanes can fly it.

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