AVIATION’S ADVANCE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1933, Page 7

AVIATION’S ADVANCE

A NEW TOURING AEROPLANE

BRISISH AERO EXPERIMENT

LONDON, December 24

Within the lest few- da Vs a hew . and interesting addition to the ranks of small British cabin light aeroplanes has taken tjie air for the firsv time. ■ Developed from the Avro Cadet open-cockpit biplahe, which has earned a high reputation this year as a training machine and air tourer, the new craft is designea to carry pilot and two passengers at a cruising speed of 105 miles OR hour on the power of a Siddeley Ganet Major seven-cylinder aircooled engine. Fuel tanks are located iii the wings, and smoking will probably be permissible in the cabin. Attainment • of the utmost speed lias not been sought.; the idea governing the design was to produce .. a cabin • aeroplane w-lich should be as easy to fly as an open cockpit machine, to the extent that any amateur pilot who had qualified for his ticket should feel quite at home in it. Only in its exceptonally quick and easy take-off is the machine remarkable from the' performance viewpoint. Duel control : will be installed in the cabin if desired. Constructionally it conforms (to 'standard Avro practice, with welded steels tubes playing a major part in the framer work. The selling price is not ’yet fixed, but will not be high. All in all, the new cabin Cadet seems likely to meet the demands of many who do not feel equal to the pilotage of some of the faster light aeroplanes. And it is interesting in being a breakaway .from the . present fashon for extreme speed to meet other, and perhaps equally important, needs of the amateur flyer. That it will be a delightful machine to fly will be readily believed by all who have piloted one of the open cockpit Cadets.