IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
FAST NEW MONOPLANES STILL SETTING RECORDS (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Jan. 11. (Received Jan. 12, at 6.30 p.m.) Imperial Airways’ fast, new monoplanes continue to set intercapital commercial records. In November the Frobisher, the first of the four-engined De Havilland Albatross monoplanes commissioned for service on the company’s European routes, flew from London to Paris in 53 minutes at an average speed of 232 miles an hour. The following month she flew with mails from England to Egypt at an average speed in the air for 2300 miles of 219 miles an hour.
Yesterday the sister craft Falcon carried 11 passengers, a crew of four, and a ton of freight from London to Brussels, a distance of 200 miles, in 48 minutes, surpassing the previous best journey accomplished by an Italian aeroplane in the fleet of Sabena, Belgium’s State air transport company, by five minutes, and averaging 250 miles an hour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23706, 13 January 1939, Page 8
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