BRITISH AERODROMES.
NEW FIELD NEAR LONDON. Prince George opened the new Handley Page aerodrome at Radlett, 15 miles from London. The first machine to take off was the famous Gugnunc, which stunted at speeds that would have crashed any other aeroplane except a helicopter. _ The exhibits included a weird twinengined night bomber known as the “Flying Grasshopper,” the fuselage of which is under the top plane instead, as formerly was the universal practice, above the lower plane, giving an appearance in flight as if upside down. The “Grasshopper” _ made its first public appearance in flight beforo the Prince, demonstrating a far greater manoeuvring ability than any previous heavy aircraft. With 1000 horse-power engines and a reputed top speed of 160 miles an hour, it is the deadliest aircraft yet evolved. Also shown was the completed _ fuselage of a 42-seater Imperial Airways “Argosy.” Mr F. Handley Page said that Imperial Airways had ordered eight of these machines, proposing to use them in the Indian service, also to Capetown and as far as Cairo, and eventually to Australia. They will be four-engined 2000 horse-power biplanes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 199, 21 July 1930, Page 5
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