The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-29
Airplane Route VIII
 Soon Reduce Of
 Continents anCd)ceans
Handley-Page Machine in Eng and s Already Carrying 40 Passengers -Londor 70 New York in 36 Hours Is Schedul Plaune ed at
 Cost of 5000 Per Head Per rip
By DUNCAN AnkMAN

London, December 19.-Hold on, MT. Business Man, to your 5000 bills.
 Some morning in the next five years, particularly if you are an international business man, you are going to come down to the office and find there the cablegram which makes you wish you could be in London in about 20 minutes.
 Then for s1o00, possibly somewhat less. you will be able to be there-not in 20 minutes exactly. but in 36 hours.
 got the prediction this morning, not from theorist, not from an inventor with model to discuss, but from a practical business men, the successful manufacturer of the largest and most powerful airplanes in the world that regular Transatlantic passenger service by airplane between New York and Lon don is not only possibility, but the strongest probability of the very near future. Only two things stand in the way of it-the need of slight technical improvements in wireless and the science of meteorology.
 Moreover. it is the bombing plane. per haps most universally feared of all the agents of destruction that these past four years have brought forth. which, ac- cording to MT. Frederick Handley-Page will quicken the life blood of world com n1erce and industry as it has not been uuickened since the invention of the rail- road and the telegraph.
 Nor Is this matter of plans to be worked out. The plane which MT. Hand ley-Page claims can make the Might stands here in the hangars of the Hand- ley-Page factories in Cricklewood, Lon- don suburb. One afternoon a few days ago, 1t carried Al passengers-including its American pilot, Clifford B. Prodger- for an hour above the city of London. In few weeks or days, 1t will carry at least g passengers-all of whom are paying rather tremendous sums for the distinction of being pioneers in the un- dertakings- a maiden passenger trip from London to Paris. Its type, the new Super Handley-Page, during the last stages of the war did tremendous things
 things so enormously destructive and far-reaching in their importance that the censor will not as yet let a word of them be breathed. A giant plane it is, high as the second story of house from wheels to the top of the cockpit longer than an express coach in its spread of wings carrying below It's fuselage en- closed and glassed in shelter for pas sengers more commodious than a small trolly car. It carries also four engines standing on four separate platforms ready to roar their 1500 horse power of dcIduCe uO lHe StOFInS or open ocean.
 CAN FLY 5000 MILES
 And 1t will fly,' said Mir Handley- Page, 5000 miles. It has been proved That Is why we know the Transatlantic flight Is a possibility.
 We can make the stunt flights now at any time," he went on. ''The achieve ment Is not far off, although I can not say precisely when it will be attempted"
 Then in his office in the great factory on the edge of Hampstead Heath, where the giant night terror of the Rhine cities has been making for the past two years, Mfr. Handley-Page sat and gave me his views on what may prove to be the great est commercial revolution of the twen- tieth century.
 The Atlantic flight is just a single possibility he went on, though perhaps the most important one, and certainly the one in which you Americans have the greatest interest.
 Let me say again we can do that naw'
 MT. Handley-Page Is young. vigorous. nervous. energetic. He has more the