The Archive · 1930

POSSIBILITY OF AIR 'TRAINS

New York, Mar, 23.

Captain Frank M. Hawks, pilotitig a cabin glider, will leave San Diego! on March 80, headed for New York: towed by a Waco hi-plane.

The two ships, one motored and the other pulled by the first and unprovided with "power, will constitute.the Orst "air train" ever across the continent, The towing gliders has been thoroughly. tri Out on shorter trips, however, and proved practic Twenty halts will be made on the way to New York. It is expected that the flight will prove the pos:

ities of operating such trains by air on the same general principal as steam trains on raily.—United Press.

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