BRITISH PRIDE IN GIANT FLYINGBOAT
Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LG'ivFDON, Jan. 14. Mr. A. Gouge, vice-ehairman oi' Saunders Roe Ltd., builders of Britain giant 140-ton flyingbpats caixying up to 140 passengers, saia: ■ ' ' These are' the airShips of the f uture , for carrying large passenger loads. Over singie stages "oi up to 5500 Hilles." Three of these aircraft are unaer construction at Cowes. They are being biplt for the Ministry of Supply a.t a cost 'of approximately £5,000,000. They have ten jet-propelled engines giving a cruising speed of over 350 UUles hourly- They have two decks eoiineoted hy two spiral staircaseS) two lounges, a cocktail bar, a purspr's office, twd and four berth cahins and a cargo hold. The hull is pressurised • for flying at 40,000 feet, Each plan§ will have a CEew of 14 iucluding two pilots and two engineers, Tlie air- v craft are expeeted to fly late 'next year.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19480116.2.35
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 16 January 1948, Page 5
Word Count
151BRITISH PRIDE IN GIANT FLYINGBOAT Chronicle (Levin), 16 January 1948, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in