NEW CIVIL AIRCRAFT
UNORTHODOX DESIGN FLIGHT BY MOLLISON (British Oflieial Wireless.) Heed. noon. RUGBY, Aug. 11. The famous aviator, Mr. James Mollison, now employed as an air transport auxiliary, has just returned to England after a remarkable flight to French Equatorial Africa. He had ferried a Cunliffe-Owen Flying Wing, a new unorthodox type of civil aircraft, to the Free French forces in Chad. This aircraft is designed to carry freight and passengers in the centre section of the wings, instead of the fuselage. It has no fuselage in the normal sense of the word, while the tail controls are connected to the centre wing by two booms. A great feature of this structure is that if enables a greater load to be carried with less engine-power. It is fully expected that after the war this new design will have a revolutionising effect on civil aviation.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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