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Show 00 HOPE TO FLY 'HOUND WORLD IN 17 I-10'JES; PARIS. Jan 21. A trip around the world In IT days by international niailplanes is regarded us one of tho possibilities of the future by airpla'n experts. They pay 17-day schedules with stops for deliveries at the chief ties enroute may ho realized when transatlantic flying becomes a reality. A suggestion for even reducing the time to J00 hours was made by one-expert one-expert who said this would be possible pos-sible if 'airmen's Islands" or floating fuel bases were stationed at points i:i the Atlantic where the mallplanes eould replenish their fuel. Such a heme would make possible a speed f luO miles an hour, he estimated. It is claimed that In a recent test 1 letter despatched from New York oy land and sea went around the orld In 89 days and that this is the world's record to date. |