Meanwhile other methods are to be tried. It is reported that the Mayo composite aircraft (in which the travelling plane, to overcome the difficulty of rising with its heavy load of petrol, is lifted by another from which it casts off in the air) will be ready in the near future for ber tests.
Then there is the land plane, the Albatross, credited with a speed of 200 mp.h. When she flew at Hatfield last week foreign observer told me he did not think she reached that speed: but she is only just out of the works and final adjustments are natural Finally y be recalled that the Caledonia used much of the space ordinarily given to passengers for extra petrol To accommodate both petrol and passengers will mean building still bigger flying boats, if, is thought likely, this type of machine is adopted for passenger-carrying.
So aMogether a good while yet be allowed for before anything like Kipling's "With the Night Mail" becomes feasible, But a very fine beginning to that end has nevertheless been made.
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