Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1919 — $75 BY AIR TO PARIS [ARTICLE]

$75 BY AIR TO PARIS

Tickets for Trip Now on Sale in ■ London. < Use Bombing Machines for Passengers Until New Designs Are > Produced. ’ : • ’■ . • London. —Ticket” are now being sold at >75 dach. for jonrney-by-airplape to Paris, passenger service starting as soon as circumstances permit. The journey by air will be done in two and one-half hours, the distance being 240 miles. Holt Thomas, of the Aircraft Manufacturing company, is backing the enterprise, which Is expected to And favor among tourists and business people. During the war many public officials have' flown froth London to Paris; Bonar Law prefers to go that way/ Allowing a half hour either end of the journey to get to and from the airdromes^jJje fniije JtiUJuey wiU

.require but three-and one-half hours. Until new’ designs are produced bombing machines which can carry a load of 3,250 pounds, travel 128 miles an hour and climb 5,000 feet in five minutes win be "used. Experiments have shown tliat by covering the fuselage with glass passengers can converse readily, the roar of the engines being minimized. Thomas hopes to reduce the one-way fare to $25 within a few months. . . J. J ■ .J,.......