BRITAIN’S AIR STRENGTH

Evening Star, Issue 22684, 25 June 1937, Page 9

BRITAIN’S AIR STRENGTH

THE HENDON DISPLAY PAGEANT OF MILITARY AVIATION (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, Juno 23. The Royal Air Eorco display which the King and Queen will attend at Hendon on Saturday will present an unequalled pageant of military aviation in a remarkable formation flight of 250 aircraft in a set piece, showing an attack on, and the defence of, a port, and in individual and formation aerobatics. • ' Interest will be aroused by the presence of a new type of aircraft, the “ Park.” Alongside the latest examples ot military aircraft at tho Royal Air Force display at Hendon will bo one civil aeroplane. This is the Albatross monoplane with four'Gipsy Twelve 500 horse-power engines, which has been designed to cruise at more than 200 miles an hour across the North Atlantic, with at least l,ooolh of mail. The monoplane represents the landplano aspect of Britain’s comprehensive experiment in transocean commercial flying. Weighing, with a full load, approximately 28,0001 b, the Albatross is notable tor its novel construction. Its tapering, cantilever wings have a stretched-skin covering or laminated wool, and the spacious monocoupe fuselage is largo enough to accommodate 22 passengers in great comfort. It is built in new material that may be described as a sandwich of extremely light balsa, wood between layers of plywood. The engines arc completely housed in streamlined cowls and obtain cooling air through apertures in the loading edge of the main plane.