JET AIRLINER'S TEST
LANCASTRIAN SHOWS PACE LONDON, April 28. The world’s first jet-propelled airliner successfully underwent tests at Bristol when the Nene Lancastrian was demonstrated. It was followed by demonstration of an Avro Lincoln bomber fitted with two Bristol Theseus airscrew turbines of a new type, which will give the heavy aircraft a speed of from 800 to 500 miles an hour. A correspondent who flew in the bomber was impressed by the lack _of vibration. One described it as like the sensation when a car moved from low gear to top. Theseus engines will be used first in the Handley Page Hermes, which is expected to be able to carry (10 passengers through the sub stratosphere at nearly 350 miles an hour. The engines are designed to give maximum commercial speeds with a high economy in fuel consumption.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22317, 30 April 1947, Page 5
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