AVIATION
BIPLANE FOR KING GHAZI (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, March 15. (Received March 10, at 5'.5 p.m.) The de Havilland Aircraft Company will deliver early next month a new Dragonfly biplane fitted with two Gipsy Major motors of I .‘SO 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 twogallon water tank and a radio box have been fitted under the rear scat in the cabin. THE KING AS AVIATOR LONDON. March Hi. (Received March Id, at II p.m.) The Daily Telegraph understands that the King is having a private aerodrome built in Windsor Great Bark, disposing of the suggestion that his Majesty is giving up aeroplane travel.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22832, 17 March 1936, Page 9
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141AVIATION Otago Daily Times, Issue 22832, 17 March 1936, Page 9
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