To London: $100, 15 Hours

Daily passenger planes across the Atlantic will leave London at 4, 6, 8, 10 p.m. and midnight (plus at least three flights daily from the Continent). That was the postwar schedule predicted last week. Flying time from London to the U.S. will be 15 hours. In all, some 300 persons a day will fly westbound (with an equal number headed east) in luxury airliners capable of carrying up to 57 passengers, plus heavy loads of mail and freight.

This picture of the plane pre-empting the passenger traffic of the steamship shortly after the war was drawn by Edward Pearson Warner, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, now vice chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. The occasion was the 31st Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture (as published, 92 pages long, illustrated with 23 charts), delivered by Warner at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London.

Said Warner: ". . . Just as statesmen and soldiers have learned in the past two years to run back and forth across the Atlantic when there is need of discussion, so in the future businessmen of London or Birmingham having negotiations afoot in New York or Detroit will board a plane where once they would have sent a cablegram." To all travelers Warner promised three things: 1) reasonable fares--about $100 each way; 2) safety--a long-term average of one fatality per 100,000,000passenger-miles; 3) dependability--91-97% on-schedule flights in winter, the almost perfect record of 99% in summer.

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