NEW AIRCRAFT.
ATLANTIC FLIGHTS SUCCESSFUL TRIALB HELD GREATER SPEEDS EXPECTED. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 25 A Short-Mayo composite aircraft, which it is proposed to employ in experimental flights across the Atlantic in the near future, are undergoing trials at Rochester. Successful tests of the lower component, a fourmotored flying-boat named Maia, have already been made. The upper component, a Mercury four-englned float seaplane, will be tested. After further trials of the two components separately, the Meroury will be attached to a wing of the flyingboat and they will ascend together as a composite aircraft. When this has climbed to a suitable height the locking mechanism seouring the two components will be released and the seaplane will rise dear of the flying-boat and proceed independently. It is hoped that by this method of mid-air launching mail loads will be carried longer distances non-stop and at greater speeds than by surface launching. Carrying 10001 b. of mails the Mercury will have a range of 3500 1 miles at a cruising speed of ICO Lo 170 miles per hour.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20283, 27 August 1937, Page 7
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176NEW AIRCRAFT. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20283, 27 August 1937, Page 7
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