OFFICIAL TRIALS
NEW BRITISH AIR LINER
FASTEST IN THE WORLD
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 2. The world's fastest four-eugined air liner has just passed its official Air Ministry flying trials. " The machine, -which is a biplane, and has a top speed of over 170 miles an hour, has been, built by the de Havilland Company for Imperial Airways and Empire Airways, and will be offered in their tenders for the extension of the Empire air mail from Singapore to Port Darwin and, thence to the terminal at Cootamundra. Its 200 horse-power engines aye arranged two on each side of the body, which has accommodation for 10 passengers. The enclosed control cabin in the extreme nose of the aircraft is equipped with powerful wireless sending and receiving installations. The aeroplane is capable of flying on any two of its four'engines and, with full engine power, it can attain a height of nearly four miles, climbing to 1200 feet within one minute of leaving the ground.
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Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 9
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