ROYAL AIRMEN.
KING TO TRAVEL BY ’PLANE. LONDON, March 16. Tire Daily Telegraph understands that the King is having a private aerodrome built at Windsor Great Park, disposing of the suggestion that His Majesty is giving up aeroplane travel. KING OF IRAQ. MODERN 'PLANE CONSTRUCTED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 15. The De Havilland Aircraft Co. will deliver early next month a new Dragonfly biplane fitted with two Gipsy Major motors of 130 horse-power to King Ghazi of Iraq. The cruising speed of the new machine is 125 miles an hour. The cabin has been specially treated to exclude engine noise, and is luxuriously finished. As a provision against emergencies in the desert a two-gallon water tank and ration box have been fitted under the rear seat in the cabin.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 17 March 1936, Page 7
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130ROYAL AIRMEN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 17 March 1936, Page 7
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