Air-Liners Ordered
AUSTRALIAN ROUTE A £60,000 CONTRACT (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, To-day. The Westralian Airways has 'cabled a £60,000 order for four De Havilland Hercules air-liners for the Perth-Ade-laide route. These are similar machines to the Cairo-Basra liners, on which in IS months there has been only one failure to keep schedule time owing to a sandstorm. Each air-liner has three silenced engines. If two petered out, the machine would not come down before 30 miles. The maximum speed is 130 miles an hour, and the cruising speed 110.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 400, 14 July 1928, Page 9
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