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the speed of air travel. Only now are the airlines turning to large scale freight transport for 
its own sake. ; 
The initial commercial uses of hydrofoil craft have understandably followed the pattern 
of early commercial aircraft. The virtues of the hydrofoil, however, are not those of the 
airplane. As Baron Von Schertel points out, it will be well to recognize the pre-eminence 
of the airplane for passenger transport beyond the range of a few hundred miles. If commer- 
cial hydrofoils are to amount to more than a novelty, we shall have to look beyond the 
operating experience of today’s boats. ‘It will be necessary to recognize the unique charac- 
teristics of hydrofoils, to acknowledge their limitations, and to exploit their potentialities 
with vigor and imagination. 
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