AIR-LINERS TO SEAT 42 PASSENGERS
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World's Largest for Imperial Airways 1000 MILES NON-STOP
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(Received 6, 11.45 a.m.) ' LONDON, April 4. The first of the new Armatrong-Whit-worth "Ensign" air-liners, of which Imperial Airways has ordered 14, will be ready for flight in about two months. They will be the world's largest land aeroplanes and are expected to have a maximum speed of 210 miles an hour. They will supplement the Empire services on Stages unsuitable' for-flying-boats and replace slower machines on Imperial Airways European services.| On the latter, they will carry 42 passengers and a crew of five, and on the Empire routes 27 passengers by day or 20 in sleeping berths at night. The machines will have four Sidde-Jey-Tiger engines and fuel tanks built into the wings. They will be able to fiy a thbusand miles nqn-stop against a 40-miles-an-hour head wind.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 66, 5 April 1937, Page 7
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