NEW FLYING MACHINES
DISPLAY NEAR LONDON. OPENING OF AERODROME. LONDON, July 8. Prince George opened the new Hundley Page aerodrome at Rndlett, 15 miles iircin London. The first machine to take off was the famous Gugnunc, which stunted at speeds that would have crashed any other aeroplane except a helicopter. The exhibits included a weird twinengined night bomber known as the “Flying Grasshopper,” the fuselage of which is under the top plane instead as formerly Was the universal practice, above the lower plane, giving an appearance in flight as if upside down. The “Grasshopper’ made its first public appearance in. flight before the Prince, demonstrating a far greater manoeuvring ability than any previous
heavy aircraft. With 1000 horse-power engines, and a reputed top speed of 160 miles an <■ hour, it is the deadliest aircraft yet evolved. ‘ / ■ , Also shown was the completed fuselage of a 42-seater Imperial Airways “Argosy.” Mr F. Handley Page said Imperial Airways had ordered eight of these machines, proposing to use them in the Indian services, also to Cape Town and as far es Cairo, and eventually to Australia. They will be four-engined 2000 horse-power biplanes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1930, Page 7
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