BRABAZON AIRLINERS
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, September 5. The Brabazon airliner, which had its trial flight on Sunday, is the proTP 6 of similar but more advanced Chines. Three more Brabazons are .be built for commercial service -n the British Overseas Airways Jporation, at a cost of £2,000,060 or for each machine. prototype is driven by eight piston engines of a radical .**> but the later models will be ;*ered by Proteus gas turbine en•;es driving airscrews.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25902, 7 September 1949, Page 5
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