SAFE AIR LINERS
BELGIUM ORDERS BRITISH PLANES FOR CONGO FOR FLYING OYER JUNGLE British Official IVireless Reed. 11.50 a.m. RUGBY, Friday. British air-liners of the latest type have been ordered by the Belgian Government for the air lines in the Congo. These machines, which are known as Westland Wessex, are triple-engined monoplanes, and are driven by three Genet Major engines giving a total horse-power of 300. Accommodation is provided for five passengers, a pilot and a navigator, and the machine, with a full load, can fly with any one of its three engines stopped. It is to be used over long tracts of jungle where a forced landing \frould be particularly unpleasant.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1022, 12 July 1930, Page 9
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112SAFE AIR LINERS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1022, 12 July 1930, Page 9
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