FLYING WING
NEW & INTERESTING TYPE OF AIRCRAFT TAKEN SAFELY TO EQUATORIAL AFRICA. JAMES MOLLISON AS PILOT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.3 a.m.) RUGBY, August 11. The famous aviator, James Mollison, now employed by the Air Transport Auxiliary, has just returned to England after a remarkable flight to French Equatorial Africa. He had ferried : Cunliffe Owen Flying Wing, a new an unorthodox type of civil aircraft, to the Free French Forces in Chad. This air craft is designed to carry freight anpassengers in the centre section of itr wings, instead of in the fuselage. It ha: no fuselage in the normal sense of the word, while the tail controls are connected to the centre wing by two booms. A great feature of this structure is that it enables a greater load to Ibe carried with less engine power. It I is fully expected that after the war this 1 new design will have a revolutionising ' effect upon civil aviation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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160FLYING WING Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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