NEW MONOPLANES
TEST FLIGHTS OVER ATLANTIC
(British Omcla! Wireless.) RUGBY, May 22. The first test flights of the new fourengined monoplanes, two of which have been ordered by the Air Ministry for experimental flights across the Atlantic, are now expected to be made towards the end of this year. When the aeroplanes have completed their performance trials they will be tried experimentally over the Atlantic. The name Albatross has been given to the new monoplanes,- which will have a maximum speed of nearly 250 miles an hour and a cruising speed of over 200 miles an hour. Powered with four Gypsy 12-cylinder engines, each machine will have a gross weight of 25,0001b. The design embodies the latest devices for reducing drag. The engines are air-cooled, and will be the most powerful yet built by the De Havilland Company, and they will incorporate lessons learned in the operation and servicing of the smaller Gypsy engines, which have been used for a great number of record flights, including Mrs. Mollison's recent flights to the Cape and back.
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Evening Post, Issue 122, 25 May 1936, Page 9
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