NEW TYPE AIRCRAFT
OVERCOMING PROBLEM OF TAKE-OFF SEAPLANE MOUNTED ON WINGS OF FLYING BOAT rilish Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, August 12. (Received August 13, at noon.) Imperial Airways have on order an experimental aircraft of a new type specially designed for the purpose of overcoming the problem of take off under heavy load. The proposed aircraft, which is the invention of Major 11. E. Mayo, consulting engineer to Imperial Airways, will consist of a large four-engined Hying boat with a four-engined seaplane mounted on its wings and interlocked with it, so that the combined load rises under the propulsion of all eight engines. When the appropriate speed and height are attained the seaplane will be released and continue under its own power, the bearer plane returning to the base.
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Evening Star, Issue 22106, 13 August 1935, Page 9
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132NEW TYPE AIRCRAFT Evening Star, Issue 22106, 13 August 1935, Page 9
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