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Show New York to Paris in 17 Hours Via Airplane a- -a- Louis BrBgnd (at right) with n load of pH!engers In n plane of his own design. One of World's Greatest Aircraft Builders Points Out Essentials of High Speed Trips Across Ocean BY MUTTON BROW Kit. PARIS. Feb 4. A world In the not very distant future In which It will be possible to fly from Pann to New York In seventeen hours. It will be possible to circle tho gloho in a nonstop airplane flight. It may be possible to travel so fast that you can beat the speed with which the world Is whirling around the sun. so that passengers would see the sun rising in the west and setting set-ting in the east. These are some of the fantastic possibilities suggested by Monsieur Louis Breguet. a wizard of aviation englneerinc and one of the greatest builders of aircraft in the whole world. I OOKIXG INTO I I i t III I asked him to set forth something some-thing of the possibilities of the neir future. Said he: "Aviation of the future will be determined de-termined by the necessities of commercial com-mercial aerial lines. These necessities necessi-ties are to know: "1 How to effect without stop a flight of over 2100 miles which would carry' us in a single flight across the Atlantic from Cork to Newfoundland. "2 How to secure a commercial speed of 120 miles an hour. This would battle high winds and avohl too great delays In time tables. "3 How to possess a wireless installation in-stallation permitting the crow to send and receive messages constantly. " How to arrange for tho comfort com-fort of passengers, especially nigh: voyages. "Such an airplane g possible, but Its realization will. not be easy. I Van Indicate the kind of airplane that in (t few years may bo able to go the distance from Paris to Buenos Aires In two and a half days. Means lower fares. "It would have 2000 horsepower, its surface would bo from 200 to 250 square meters and it would weigh from 14 to 16 tons. It would probably prob-ably have a speed of 150 miles per hour. There would bo accommodations accommoda-tions equal to those of sleeping cars for twenty passengers. ' I figure the price of a ticket would bo 9000 francs, against 15.200 now-charged now-charged for a cabin de luxe on n steamship "The principal lines I visualize are those from Paris to New York, from Paris to Buenos Alves via Dakbar and Kio de Janeiro, and from Paris to the extreme Orient via Constantinople. Constantino-ple. Bagdad. Bombay. Calcutta Hanoi, Shanghai to Yokohama. 'The passengers would save money and do tho journey n one-eighth the time TWENTY YEARS Mil. i "I foresee, say In 20 years, u glur.t monoplane to travel between Paris and New York In which tho plan will be of metal and tho cabin- or the passengers will ie built Inside this plane. The machine will have oOOO horsepower and weigh 50 tot In addition to the crew of II men it will be able to carry 100 passenge -s With light baggage. "WJth a commercial speed Of 150 miles per hour. It would make the trip in 2A hour- "In the meantime we are euttl.i-down euttl.i-down In the weight of airplanes. Increasing In-creasing the power of our engines and cutting down tho consumption of r.e-trol. r.e-trol. ' "Eventually It mav be possible to build a machine capable of going at the rate of about 750 miles an Hour This means that, starting frorn .ar). and traveling on the parallel of -,. tilde on which Paris Is situated, such a machine could in a single flicht go clear around the world In 22 to -A hours." |