Most suitable type of aircraft for commercial transoceanic service is discussed; claims of airship and airplane should be regarded as mutually supplementary and not competitive; dangers of fuel exhaustion, engine breakdown, structural failure, accumulation of ice, errors of navigation, fire, and loss of control are discussed in cases of airship and airplane. From Air Travel News, Dec. 1928.


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    Title :

    Which type of aircraft will survive in trans-oceanic service?


    Additional title:

    Aeroplane


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Aeroplane ; 36 , n 1


    Publication date :

    1929


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :




    Trans-oceanic aviation

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1910


    Trans-oceanic airplane

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1920