Faster & Faster

U.S. airlines last week offered a double preview of the speedy travel which will be available in the immediate postwar world.

A four-motored Liberator transport of Consairway (Consolidated Vultee's air-transport division) flew from the U.S. to Australia & back in 3 days 22 hr. 10 min., clipping an hour from the previous record. Flight time two years ago: nine days.

An American Export Airlines flying boat took off from New York's LaGuardia field with a capacity load of freight and passengers. The huge, 30-ton, four-motored ship landed in Ireland 15 hr. 51 min. later. Average speed : 211 m.p.h. The flight clipped 26 min. from the previous west-east record. Pan American has predicted even faster time of 13 hr. 48 min. to London (TIME, Sept. 6). Use of land planes may lower even this fancy figure.

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