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OCTOBER 18, 1928 ffi & Si S A Czech Com- mercial Machine: The Aero A.23. The crew consists of one navigator, one pilot, one wireless operator and one engineer, and the pay-load is 12 passengers with their luggage. The total loaded weight is approximately 19,000 kg. (41,800 lbs.), with which load the range is stated to be approximately 4,000 km. (2,480 miles). No perfor- mance figures are yet available, as the machine is, as already mentioned, at present undergoing tests. [" FLIGHT " Sketch For handling on the ground the Albatros twin-engined commercial machine is provided with tubular hand- rails under the stern of the fuselage. The Savoia S.59 Strictly speaking, the Savoia S.59 flying-boat exhibited on the Italian stand is not a commercial machine in that it is evidently a training type, and it is not therefore proposed to give a detailed description of it here. One of our photographs will show the general appearance of the machine. THE LARGE COMMERCIAL MACHINES As was to be expected from an exhibition intended to be purely civilian in character, a large number of commercial aeroplanes, apart from the flying-boats already described, are shown at the I.L.A. In the following notes we have attempted to group the commercial machines according to size into " large " and " small " types. It will be realised that there is no hard and fast rule which can be applied in selecting the class into which, according to this arbitrary- division, any particular machine should fall, but machines with seating accommodation for more than eight persons have been classified " large," while those with eight places or less have been placed in the " small " class. The latter is actually represented at the Berlin Show by a greater number of machines, a fact not surprising when it is remem- bered that Germany, and most European countries with the exception of England, operates short routes on which the volume of traffic is not such as to justify the use of the large machines to which we are accustomed in this country. The Aero A.23 This machine, which was also exhibited at the Paris Show held in the summer, is of a type used on the Czech State Airways, and is a normal single-engined biplane, largely of wood construction. The engine is a Walter " Jupiter," and the cabin has seats for six passengers, while the cockpit, placed aft of the cabin, has two seats for pilot and navigator, or two pilots. The machine is not unlike the D.H.61 in a general way, but the lines are not very pleasing, or possibly it may be the rather crude colour scheme chosen which spoils the appearance of the machine. The cabin appears very comfortable, and the machine is reported to have proved verv reliable in service. The "Schlaf- wagen" : The Albatros L.73 has its seats so ar- ranged that they can be tilted to form couches at night. 35 503 m m 5S 83 913 F2
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