POWERFUL 'PLANES

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 122, 25 May 1936, Page 7

POWERFUL 'PLANES

British 250 nup.h. Craft for Atlantic. EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS. British Official Wireless. (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 24. The first test flights of new fourengined monoplanes, two of which have been ordered by the Air Ministry for experimental flights across the. Atlantic, are expected to be made toward the end of this year. When the aeroplanes have completed their performance trials they will be trie'd experimentally over the Atlantic. The name "Albatross" has been n-iven to the new monoplanes, which have a maximum speed of nearly 250 miles an hour and a cruising speed of more than 200 miles an hour. They will be powered with four Gipsy 12-cylinder engines, and each machine will have a gross weight of 25,0001b. The design embodies the latest devices for reducing drag. The engines will be air-cooled and will be the most powerful yet built by the de Havilland Company. They will incorporate lessons learned in the operatifui and servicing of the smaller Gipsy engines, which have been used for a great number of record flights, including those of Mrs. Amy Mollison to the Cape and back.

SEEN OYER ENGLAND.

GIANT GERMAN AIRSHIP. (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, May 24. The German airship Hindenburg appeared over the British Isles last night on her return transatlantic journey from Lakehurst, New York, to Frankfurt. Slie was first seen over - Ulster about six o'clock last night, and later several English towns had a. good view of the airship. A parcel which dropped from the airship as she passed low over Keigliley, was found by two boy scouts who went to Morton Banks cemetery, about two miles from Keighley, where about 20 German prisoners were buried during the war and placed tributes on the grave.

PANEL IN CHURCH. NEW ZEALAND INTEREST. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 24. A memorial panel was unveiled with two sanctuary candlesticks at St. Lawrence Jewry, the official !New Zealand church iiv London. The panel was dedicated by Archdeacon Sharp to the memory of the Rev. W. P. Besley, rector from 192 to 1934 and a former schoolmaster in Maunganui. The first master of the New Zealand Lodge, Mr. H. U. L. Williams, read the lesson.