AIRISMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 645, 23 April 1929, Page 14

AIRISMS

It has been published elsewhere that there was about 20,000 of an attendance at the pageant on Saturday. The official estimate, however, is 10,000. The majority of visiting planes which took part on Saturday departed on Sunday, quite a number of them making for the Hawke’s Bay Club’s airdrome, where a pageant will take place next Saturday. Ford at Full Throttle A plane a day, beginning May 1, is the announced production programme of the aircraft division of the Ford Motor Company. The personnel of the plane factory has been increased from 150 to 1,200 during the past year. Present production is three of the large tri-motored all-metal planes a week. During 1928 the company delivered 51 planes. * * * Largest in the World The new* air lines recently ordered in England will be the largest in the world, says the aeronautical correspondent of “The Times,” and represent the largest order yet placed tor British air transport. The two engines are placed on the wide lower plane, and the others above on the top plane, giving the passengers an uninterrupted view, and reducing the noise of the engines inside the cabin, which is divided into two saloons, eight feet wide, with four seats abreast. The machines will be delivered a year lienee.