IMPERIAL AIRWAYS.
LAST YEAR’S OPERATIONS. NEW MAIL AEROPLANES. (Omclal Wlreloss.) RUGBY, Oct. 25. At a general meeting of Imperial Airways, Limited, it was stated that during the past year the company's craft had flown 1,722,000 miles compared with 1,296,000 miles in the previous year. The construction was nearing completion of a fast mail-carrying aeroplane ordered as an experiment by the Air Ministry. This 'machine would have a top speed of 195 miles an hour and a cruising speed of 172 miles an hour. Us range would be 1000 miles. The machine referred to is a biplane with two Bristol Pegasus engines. It will carry mails weighing 10001 b and will have an apparatus which will enable the mails to be dropped and picked up in flight.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18777, 27 October 1932, Page 7
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