“Stratosphere Airliner of 1988” on the back cover of “Amazing Stories,” Vol. 12, No. 6 (November 1938).
“New York to Paris in ten hours! This marvelous giant of the future will make such a trip with ease, flying in the stratosphere, high above all storms and danger, carrying hundreds of passengers in luxurious comfort.
“When we stop to consider the progress of aerial science during the years since the Wrights lifted their unwieldy craft aloft, we can’t help but make an attempt to picture the plane of the future. Already the day of the giant airliner has come, and the trend is definitely toward large size and toward higher flight levels. We will build larger ships as time goes by, and we will send them higher, until finally we utilize the stratosphere lanes where exist the ideal conditions to insure swift transportation to any part of the globe with the greatest possible safety factor. No storms, no uncertain conditions, no varying ceiling, but uniform and prevailing weather factors which can be permanently charted. That these giants of the heights will hurtle through the rarefied air at cruising speeds of 450 miles per hour, at the 50,000-foot level is not a vague dream but a scientific feasibility. In this graphic diagram we have attempted to depict the stratosphere airliner of 50 years from now, with a few of the scientific marvels of construction and engineering that will make it an actuality.”
“Stratosphere Airliner of 1988” on the back cover of “Amazing Stories,” Vol. 12, No. 6 (November 1938).
“New York to Paris in ten hours! This marvelous giant of the future will make such a trip with ease, flying in the stratosphere, high above all storms and danger, carrying hundreds of passengers in luxurious comfort.
“When we stop to consider the progress of aerial science during the years since the Wrights lifted their unwieldy craft aloft, we can’t help but make an attempt to picture the plane of the future. Already the day of the giant airliner has come, and the trend is definitely toward large size and toward higher flight levels. We will build larger ships as time goes by, and we will send them higher, until finally we utilize the stratosphere lanes where exist the ideal conditions to insure swift transportation to any part of the globe with the greatest possible safety factor. No storms, no uncertain conditions, no varying ceiling, but uniform and prevailing weather factors which can be permanently charted. That these giants of the heights will hurtle through the rarefied air at cruising speeds of 450 miles per hour, at the 50,000-foot level is not a vague dream but a scientific feasibility. In this graphic diagram we have attempted to depict the stratosphere airliner of 50 years from now, with a few of the scientific marvels of construction and engineering that will make it an actuality.”