IDEAL AIR LINER
■Own Correspondent)
£150,000 British Proposal
(By Air Mail—
LONDON, Oct. 23. The Air Ministry has asked all the aircraft manufacturers iu Britain to take part in a competition to produce* the world 's ideal air-liner. With America and Germany producing faster and more economical transport planes than Britain, part of our. export market has beeu lost. Home air lines have been running with imported machines. The Government is confident that airliners superior in every way to anythine produced abroad can be manufactured here if sufficient incentive was provided for designers and manufacturers, It is understood that a prize totalliug more than £150,000 would be awa?ded. This would be split up into a cash payment and a large order for the winning design. The competition will be for a monoplane, holding up to twenty-five passengers. Its construction will probabLy have to be metal throughout. A maximum speed of at least 250 m.p.h. would be required. Oomplete soundproofing will be necessary for the cabin, which will have to be roomy. The ideal air-liner would possess a high safety factor so that it could land slowly, take ofi! in a short space, and fly on oue engine if necessary. . 1 T '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 13
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