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Show HAXDLEY PAGE PREDICTS AERO JITNEYS; PRICE $700 p. (By International News Service.) LONDON Aeroplane jitneys carrying- one passcngor besides the pilot, with a speed of 110 mjlcs an hour, and able to keep in tho air five hours, the machine coating but $700, are predicted pre-dicted as possible and practical, if not to say popular airplanes of the future, by Mr. Handley Page, noted aeroplano designer and manufacturer. Ho Bays his research and experimental experi-mental department has proved such a machine Is feasible any tlmo tho pub-lis pub-lis demand for It develops. It would have 25 horsepower. In America, Mr. Pago says, automobiles auto-mobiles soon will be so numerous that road travel will becomo congested and that the aeroplane Is the only alternative alterna-tive for those who demand comfort, or who hope to get any where quickly. Mr. Pase, who developed tho largest and most powerful mutlple engine bombing machines, believes the aeroplano aero-plano of the future will bo tho light one, owing to lowered cost of operation. opera-tion. An aeroplane jitney, he says, can be run as cheaply as its road sister. |