NEW TYPE OF ’PLANE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1928, Page 7

NEW TYPE OF ’PLANE.

Passengers And Engines In Wings. JUNKERS’ DESIGN. (“Times” Cables.) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 23. The Berlin correspondent of the “Times” states that the Junkers Aircraft Co. is constructing a new monoplane, No. 138, the wings of which will hold the engines and the passengers. The windspan will be 164 feet and the thickness of the wings near the fuselage will be eight feet, accommodating the passengers’ cabins, four 900 horse-power motors, accessible always for the mechanics. The navigating cabin is in the forepart and holds two pilots. It will be used at first as a land machine, later being adapted to land or water. AIRCRAFT GUN. PERFECTED BY SPANIARDS. (“ Times ” Cables.) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 23. The Madrid correspondent of the “Times'’ states that after six years’ experiments Captains Moraldea and Castillo have perfected an aircraft gun, launching by compressed gas without explosion and recoil a projectile resembling an aerial torpedo.

CAPTURED BY MOORS ?

FRENCH PILOTS MISSING. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) CASABLANCA, Septen?ber 23. A French mail aeroplane, which was engaged in flying a regular service to Dakar, is missing, and it is feared that the occupants have fallen into the hands of the hostile Moors, who three months ago, captured and are still detaining in prison another pilot of the same company.

“LINDY’S” STUNTS.

PAID 32/ A DAY. LOS ANGELES. September 21. For doing his death-defying stunts during the National air races here. Colonel Charles Lindbergh, famous American airman, was paid 32/ per day, the same as other officers participating in the events.