Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1919 — Speed in the Air. [ARTICLE]

Speed in the Air.

- By merely modifying wing curvature, airplanes of to-day could be made to fly at a speed of 250 miles an hour, according to a British captain who is considered an aeronautical authority. The obstacle that this would present, however, would be a minimum landing speed of about 150 miles an hour. Greater speed in the air is much to be desired, but no pilot is particularly anxious to bring his machine to earth at a rate such as that indicated.