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FLIGHT, APRIL 4, 1929 ZBSS [" FLIGHT " Photographs THE AIR ROUTE TO INDIA: Loading up the Armsti ong-Whitworth "Argosy" air liner " City of Glasgow" with mails at Croydon, on March 30. Some 1,200 letters were carried, even in the small com- partment in the nose. Siddeley " Jaguar " engines, will be used. At present, the standard types, as already in service on Imperial Air- ways, will be employed, but subsequently it is intended to put into operation the new improved " Argosies " fitted with geared " Jaguars." These latter machines—some brief particulars of which were published in FLIGHT for March 14 last—possess several improvements and will have a much better performance. In other respects, how- ever, they are similar to the " City of Glasgow " type which opened the service on Saturday. The " Argosy " air liner was described in detail in FLIGHT for July 1, 1926, but the following main characteristics may be of interest :—Span, 90 ft. ; length, 65 ft. ; wing area, 1,890 sq.ft. ; maximum speed, 110 m.p.h. ; cruising speed, 90-95 m.p.h. The Short " Calcutta."—For the section between Genoa and Alexandria, a distance of some 1,700 miles over water, the Short " Calcutta " flying-boat will be employed. These flying-boats are of all-metal construction and are fitted with three Bristol " Jupiter "engines. Descriptions of this flying- boat have appeared in FLIGHT (January 6, 1927, and February 23, 1928), and it has already seen service on the Southampton- Channel Islands, and Liverpool-Belfast air routes. The principal characteristics are :—Span. 93 ft. ; length, 64 ft. 9 in. ; wing area, 1,825 sq. ft. ; weight empty, 12,600 lb. ; seating capacity, 15 passengers and crew of three ; speed range, 58-120 m.p.h. " ~ " Hercules."—A landplane is used section between Alexandria and miles. This is the de Havilland " fitted with three Bristol " Jupi- is the type already operating the The " Hercules " is a tractor - wood-and-metal construction—steel The De Havilland once more on the Karachi, some 3,000 " 66 " or " Hercules, ter" engines, which Cairo-Basra service, fuselage biplane of AEROPLANE - • SLEEPING CAR.- ' FLVING BOAT..... <SOVIET/ RUSSIA Kharkov Aah-akhan •jeuoT-cepsjrignr A F R I C A Sketch map of the Empire Air Route to India, which was inaugurated on March 30. 270
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