Such places are kept supplied wholly by air..
5. After World War П, bigger and faster airliners were introduced.
Jet-propelled aircraft were first used in 1950. Air transport is very valuable
for emergency medical work. The most important
use of air transport
besides carrying passengers is carrying mail. If the letters are sent by air
mail, they are not long in coming. Although it is unlikely that aircraft will
ever replace ships for carrying heavy and bulky cargoes such as oil, coal,
minerals,
grain and machinery, air transport is already proving a serious
rival to passenger ships on some routes.
6. Helicopters are Hovercraft. 1 Helicopters are very useful in
places where there is no room for long, flat runways. Madem turbo-jet
airliners need a run of nearly two m iles lang to take off, but helicopters
can
use small fields, platfarms mounted on ships and the flat tops of
buildings. Helicopters were first introduced for regular airline service
1947. Later, helicopters were used for canying passengers and mail on
short routes, and for taking airline passengers between the centres of cities
and the main airports.
7. While helicopters gain in needing very
little space for taking-off
and landing, they lose because the speed at which they move forward is
quite low. So the problem was to develop an aircraft combining the
advantages of the helicopter with the high speed of an ordinary aircraft. If
the designers could develop such a machine the problem would besalved.
So far this purpose the hovercraft was designed. Hov ercrafts are likely to
be useful for
ferry services - for exam ple, in ferrying motor cars across
the English Channel. They may also be useful for travel in roadless
countries.
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