LUNCH UP ALOFT
AEROPLANE AS DINING ROOM NOVELTY FOR TWENTY PASSENGERS. LONDON, October 28. A novelty was introduced in public luncheons when twenty passengers partook of a full course lunch while flying over London. Tho ’plane was a now Vickers’ Vanguard machine equipped with a 700 horsepower engine. Each passenger had a comfortable chair at a table, the arrangement resembling a Pullman car. Two waiters were in attendance. Tho machine was built for tho Air Ministry to bo placed on the Imperial Airways Service for testing purposes. The Vanguard is a development of the Vimy which flew to Australia.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19442, 30 October 1925, Page 8
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