SATISFACTORY TEST.
BIPLANE FOR EVEREST EXPEDITION.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 25.
The biplane which is to be used in the forthcoming British attempt to fly over Mount Everest is equipped with a Bristol Pegasus 600 horse-power engine of the type used by Captain Unwins in establishing the altitude record. In the altitude test at Yeovil, Somerset, it was flown by the Chief Westland test pilot, with Air-Commo-dore Fellowes, leader of the Everest flight expedition, as observer. Full expedition equipment was carried by the machine, which thus weighed over two tons. At 35,000 feet the external temperature was more severely cold than is anticipated on the actual Everest flight. Air-Commodore Fellowes stated that the test was in every respect very satisfactory, and at great heights the heating and oxygen equipment worked admirably. . The machine will now be dismantled and shipped to India.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 51, 27 January 1933, Page 2
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