Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXI, Number 5, 27 May 1936 — British Build Strato Plane [ARTICLE]

British Build Strato Plane

Great Britain is lmil(ling a ''Hush-hush" plane to f3y higHer and faster than has ever before been pos,sible. It will be rea<l,y this 'Snmmer to inake a <lramatic l«id for supre.ulij.cy i» stratosphere Flight. ■ Ēxpcrts prodict that the stratosphere will eventuall\ heeome the hiffh\v'ay of nir tranpport. The builder? of this plane realize that America, Germany. Soviet Russia and Belgium are all coriducting experiments to prodi/ce j»lanes to fly eight or ten miles Vbove the earth, and that succeal mcans tho capture of t,he world'i air transport trade.

i>lano, tho socrets of whieh āre closely guarded by tho Air.vMipistfy, will, it is imderstOQd, far snperior to any stratos£here flying inaehino yet biftlf£T