ENGINE “FLIES ATLANTIC”
TESTS AT AIR PORT IXJNDON, June 23. Ground tests equivalent to flying the Atlantic 65 times were completed yesterday at Hatfield airport on Britain’s new ocean airmail ‘‘Gipsy Twelve” engines: . Streamlined to bullet shape, four of tlie.se 500 li.p< engines are scheduled to make their first actual Atlantic flight' this summer in the first airliner now doing Air Ministry trials. ** A fleet of "Albatross” trans-Atlan-tic planes have been 'designed round the new Gjpsy engines.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 76, 29 August 1938, Page 1
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77ENGINE “FLIES ATLANTIC” Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 76, 29 August 1938, Page 1
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