Air Conditioning of Flying-boats’ Plants
CONTROL OF TEMPERATURES LONDON, Jan. 26. I am informed that Imperial Airways, limited, is to experiment with a new form of air-conditioning plant, operated by a specially constructed and very light electric motor, writes Group-Captain L. G. S. Payne in the Daily Telegraph. The plant, which is intended to maintain tho temperature in the passenger cabin at a suitable level, and to provide a constant change of air, can also be used to supply heat for cooking. The apparatus will first bo tried out in one of the “C" class flying-boats, and, if it proves satisfactory, may be adopted on all the large air-liners of tho company. One of the “C" class flying-boats, the Castor, which is employed on the regular service between England and Australia, recently covered the 520 miles between Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, and Bagdad at an average speed of 200 miles an hour. The normal cruising speed of these flying-boats is about 160 miles an hour.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 6
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