R.A.F. DISPLAY WILL BE WONDERFUL PAGEANT

Northern Advocate, 25 June 1937, Page 5

R.A.F. DISPLAY WILL BE WONDERFUL PAGEANT

f ßritish Official Wireless .] 1 (Received 10 a.m.) RUGBY, June 23:

The display by the Royal Air Force, which the King and Queen will attend At Hendon on Saturday,! will present an unequalled pageant of military aviation—in a remarkable formation flight of 250 aircraft i» a set piece showing an attack on and the defence of a port, and in individual and formation aerobatics. Interest will be aroused jay , the presence of a nevy type of civil aircraft'alongside the latest examples of military aircraft. This is an Albatross monoplane, with four Gipsy 500 h.p. engines, and is designed to cruise at more than 200 miles an hour -across the .North Atlantic with at least lOOOlbs. of mail. The 1 machine represents the land plane aspect of Britain’s comprehensive experiment in trans-ocean commerical flying. £ Novel Construction, •The Albatross, which will weigh '• With a full load, approximately V2B,doolli)s is notable for its novel construction. Its tapering cantilever wings have a stressed skin covering of laminated wool and the spacious mohocoque fuselage is large enough to' accomodate 22 passengers with comfort. It is built in a new material that may be described as a sandwich of extremely light Balsa wood between layers of plywdod. The engines are completely housed in streamlined cowls and obtain air for cooling through apertures in the leading edge of the main wing.