NEW PERCIVAL 'PLANE
COMPANY'S LATEST PRODUCT.
ORDERS FROM INDIA. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, December 18. Captain E. W. Percival, Australian designer-pilot, this week demonstrated the latest product of his company at Luton, Bedfordshire.
The Air Ministry lias lately ordered Percival aeroplanes before a sample had been built. Private users are following that lead. The new twin-engined cabin aeroplane produced by Percival Aircraft, Limited, has heen sold to users in Iraq and India before they had seen it fly. The firm has 10 of these aeroplanes in construction; the first is about to undergo its airworthiness tests and nine of *the first batch have already been sold. i
Called the Q.fi. it is a low-wing monoplane fitted with two Gipsy VI. 205 h.p. engines driving variable-pitch screws. Tt is built of wood. With a retractable undercarriage tli? Q.f> has a range of 750 miles when cruising at 180 miles an hour at 7000 ft.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 3, 5 January 1938, Page 9
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