“PICKABACK” PLANE
TESTS TO BE MADE
AN ATLANTIC PROBLEM.
LONDON, Sunday
The "Star” says that a "pickaback” plane may be the Imperial Airways solution of the problem of spanning the Atlantic with a regular air service.
The present difficulty is getting a plane possessing sufficient range with a full load of petrol from the ground, which it is hoped to overcome by the introduction of a huge plane with special climbing powers on which a four-engined seaplane, capable of 180 miles an hour'and carrying 10 passengers, baggage and mail, can be borne aloft to a height of several thousand feet. The pilot will then release mechanism enabling the seaplane to start across the Atlantic under most favourable circumstances.
Major R. 11. Mayo, an Imperial Airways engineer, devised the plan, and Shortt Brothers are building an experimental "pickaback” and seaplane. Test flights will be possible in the summer. The Air Ministry is financing the scheme. The seaplane, if successful, will be Imperial Airways’ answer to the Zeppelin.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 February 1935, Page 5
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