HUGE AIRLINER PLANNED
LONDON, June 30. The Ministry of Aircraft Production has authorised the Bristol Aeroplane Company to begin work on the world's biggest airliner. The company's chief engineer and designer,. Mr. Leslie G. Frise, planned the airliner, which will weigh 130 tons and incorporate many of the theories which were put into the Beaufighter and other war planes from the Bristol factory. • Mr. Frise's airliner will require a three-mile runway, to take off and probably in addition a five-mile clearance round the field for climbing and approaching. Its production will not be permitted to interfere with the company's output' of war-planes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1943, Page 4
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102HUGE AIRLINER PLANNED Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1943, Page 4
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