PASSENGER 'PLANES.
Designs For All-Metal Flying Boats. MORE TOR AIR MINISTRY. (Australian and N.Z. Press • Association.) LONDON, September 20. Fifty designs, have been submitted to the Air Ministry for passenger-carrying metal flying boats of the same pattern as those which circumnavigated Australia. Each flying boat is to have six engines and a non-stop range of 1000 miles, and is to be able to fly with two engines out of action. The total weight of each machine is to be from 30 to 49 tons. There are to be on each a kitchen, a dining-room, and sleeping accommodation for every passenger. Some of the flying boats are intended for a service between India and Australia.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 9
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114PASSENGER 'PLANES. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 9
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