FAMILY AEROPLANES
ONE MACHINE A WEEjK AUSTRALIAN COMPANY’S PLANS SYDNEY, October 18. New aeroplanes to be turned out- at the rate of one a week, and this in Australia, where to-day aeroplane production is njl! However, if circumstances warrant it Australian Aerial Services, which now conducts so successfully many aerial lines within the Commonwealth, will be prepared next year to enter upon mass production of an all-metal monopldno to be designed in Australia. The director of the firm, Mr. ,T. H. Larkin, stated the other day that the drawings for the new plane were not quite completed. Except for the engine, wheels, and instruments, the plane will- be totally designed and made in Australia. A start lias been made with the manufacture of the first machine, which would be ready for tests next February. It would be known as the Lascoter, and if the tests were satisfactory the company would proceed with the manufacture of additional machines. If the company ivas able to undertake mass production thfc cost of each machine would bo considerably reduced.
The Lascoter type- has been evolved specialty to suit Australian conditions by the chief engineer, Mr W, S. Shacklelon, who was, the chief designer for Beardmares, the well-known Scottish firm which built the largest all-metal monoplane in the world, the Inflexible. Each rib of Lacoster’s main piano will weigh only 15 ounces, and by.way of a test nine men weighing 1295 pounds stood on two of the compleliwl ribs, which easily sustained the weight. The ribs are to be built of spruce and birch ply, held together by brass nails. The- now plane will be u four-seater or “t'umitv” plane—tile aerial proto type of the live sealer family motor ear. I t is primarily designed for the private owner in Australia.
More than 1000 drawings were made to guide the workmen, and the preliminary work is not yet, completed. Before the designs are finished four draughtsmen will have worked for six months on them. One expert designer is on his way from England now to supervise the finishing details.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16797, 9 November 1928, Page 12
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