“MOTOR-CYCLE OF THE AIR”
1200-Mile Flight Planned
'Dominion" Special Service.—By Air Mall.
London, November 20.
Flight Lieutenant David Llewellyn, the famous airman, plans to fly to Tunis and back to England in a weekend, on a specially designed midget plans described as a “motor-cycle of the air.”
Built by pupils of Ihe Conque Ports Flying Club to the design of Mr, J. R. Currie, the club’s ground engineer, the tiny plane has been named the Currie Wot.
The machine is a biplane with a wing span of 22ft. and a length of 18ft. Flight Lieutenant Llewellyn said this week, after a week-end flight: “It is easily the best machine of its type I have flown. It handles perfectly and has no vices. “Mr. Currie is to be congratulated on producing a plane that will fill a great need. I want to fly It to Tunis and back in a week-end, starting from Lympne just after midnight on a Saturday and getting back on the Sunday night. “I am certain the plane can do it. I know the route well —Paris, Marseilles, Corsica, Sardinia —about 1200 miles there and back again. The whole trip could bo done for a little more than a flver.’’
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 71, 17 December 1937, Page 13
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