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IMPERIAL AIRWAYS’ YEAR. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 25. At a- general meeting of the Imperial Airways Company it was stated that during the year Imperial Airways craft -had flown! 1,722,000 miles compared with 1,296,000 miles the previous year. The construction was nearing completion of a f as t m ail carrying aeroplane, ordered as an experiment by the Air Ministry. The machine would have a , top speed of 195 miles an hour, a cruising speed of 172 miles, and a range of ICO miles. The machine was a- biplane, with two Bristol Pegasus engines, and would carry a thousand pounds in weight of mails. It would have apparatus enabling mails to be dropped and picked up in flight.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1932, Page 5
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120AVIATION Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1932, Page 5
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