NEW FAST PLANE.
260 m.p.h. Achieved in Test in Britain. LONDON, March 27. Captain Edgar Pereival. the Australian flyer, has designed the first British commercial plane capable of a speed of 200 miles an hour. It is the Pereival Mew Gull. The machine, in a trial, climbed like a roc. 1 cet to 3000 ft. It described dizzy circles and then dived to the aerodrome and whizzed past the spectators at a speed of 260 miles an hour. On returning, Captain Pereival made a perfect landing. The Mew Gull is a tiny all-wood single-seater, low-wing monoplane. The wing span is 24ft. The machine is 19ft long and is powered by a 150 h.p. Namier Javelin air-cooled engine. It is intended for sporting ownerpilots and for training fighter pilots. The cruising speed is approximately 190 m.p.h., and the top speed 215. It is priced about £IOOO. The machine is not intended for the Centenary air race, in which Captain Pereival will not compete, but the designer has great hopes of winning the King’s Cup air race in Britain with the plane.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20266, 28 March 1934, Page 1
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