FAST NEW AIR LINER
BEING BUILT IN BRITAIN FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC SERVICE i i U FA.— Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright I LONDON. 22nd November. I The Air Ministry has ordered a fourengined 30- passenger, all-metal airliner from the Fairey Aviation Company designed to cruise at 220 to 250 miles an hour, with a maximum speed of 275 miles an hour. The machine is intended for the South Atlantic service now being organised by British Airways. It is hoped that it will bring Rio de Janeiro I within two days of London. Sir Francis Sheldermine, Directorj General of Civil Aviation .stated that j he expected that machines of this type j would be in production by 1940. They I are intended to meet the requirements lof civil aviation in England and the Dominic'S.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 23 November 1938, Page 8
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