VI 



GLOBAL TRANSPORTATION 



IN TOMORROW'S "Age of Air" all distances between places will 

 be measured in terms of hours instead of miles. No place on 

 earth will be more than forty-eight hours from your local air- 

 port. You will be able to spend your vacations in foreign 

 lands that heretofore you may have seen only on motion- 

 picture screens India, Egypt, Australia, Argentina, China. 

 And the cost of such a vacation will be somewhat less than it 

 now costs you to travel to the other side of the United States. 



You may go off on this world jaunt in a super-Clipper that 

 houses one hundred and twenty passengers in the plane's wing. 

 Sixty people could be comfortably accommodated in the 

 dining salon, on the observation deck, and the promenade, 

 and in the cocktail lounge. The plane would have a range of 

 five thousand miles at a cruising speed of three hundred miles 

 per hour. The engines would be placed within the structure 

 so that they could be serviced or repaired while the plane was 

 in flight. The super-Clipper would carry a crew of sixteen. 



Just before the war began, Pan American Airlines launched 

 a program for the construction of fifty giant Clippers, each 

 capable of carrying one hundred and fifty-three passengers. 

 The line anticipated a New York-to-London flight in ten 

 hours at a one-way fare of one hundred dollars for each 

 passenger. 



Glenn L. Martin, president of the Glenn L. Martin Co., 

 has designed a 250,000 pound airplane with six or more 

 engines for trans-Atlantic service. It would carry a pay load 

 of fifty thousand pounds the equivalent of one hundred pas- 



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