“BEARER” 'PLANES
BRITISH EXPERIMENT TAKING OFF PROBLEM. IMPERIAL AIRWAYS PLAN. [British Official Wireless.l (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, August 12. Imperial Airways Ltd., have on order experimental aircraft of a new type, specially designed for the purpose of overcoming the problem of taking off under a heavy load. The proposed aircraft, which is the invention of Major R. E. Mayo, consulting engineer to Imperial Airways, Ltd., will consist of alarge fourengine flyingboat, with a four-engine seaplane mounted on its wings and interlocked with it, so that the combined load rises under the propulsion of all eight engines. When the appropriate speed and height are attained, the seaplane is released, and continues under its own power, the “bearer” plane returning to its base.
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Northern Advocate, 13 August 1935, Page 5
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