SAFETY DEVICES ON ROYAL AIRLINERS
LO'NDON, January 29. 1 The King's and Queen's personal Vickers Vifcing airliners, which they are using for. the South African tour, j are equipped with almost every known proved air safety device, including seats fitted1 with "chairchutes," parachutes and harness forming part of the chair's "upholstery. They can be . donned in 15 isecondsv Some chairs are facing backward, which experts consider would reduce the shoclc in a forced lan'ding. The petrol tanks have been made crashproof to reduce the risk of fire. Comjplete radio and radar equipment has been installed.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19470130.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5315, 30 January 1947, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
95SAFETY DEVICES ON ROYAL AIRLINERS Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5315, 30 January 1947, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in