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1934
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 18, 1934 SPEEDING-UP BRITISH AIR TRANSPORT : The de H<ivilUnd D.H.86 can be regarded as a high-speed develop-ment of the " Dragon," from which it differs in having four engines and very tapered wings. The machine has not been through the Martlesham tests yet, and no official performance figures are, therefore, available, but^one onlyhas to see it fly to realise that it is very fast indeed. (FLIGHT Photo.) AN AIR LINER IN MINIATURE SUITABLE for feeder and auxiliary services, the smallestfour-engined airliner yet constructed, built to the order of Imperial Airways by the de Havilland Aircraft Company,made its first test flight at Stag Lane Aerodrome, Edgware, on January 15. The machine, shown in the above illus-tration, is a biplane and has four " Gipsy " engines mounted on the lower wing. In addition to a crew of one,the machine will carry up to ten passengers at a speed of more than 120 m.p.h. This aircraft is intended to providea replica in miniature of the big four-engined airliner, and has the same reliability, comfort and absence of noise. Itssize will render it less costly to operate and it will, there- fore, be particularly suitable for auxiliary and feeder ser-vices, connecting with main Empire air routes and pro- viding quick and luxurious air travel in all cases whereonly moderate loads have to be carried. THE PANDER "POSTJAGER"THE Pander Postjager which, as was reported in FLIGHT last week, reached Batavia on December 31 andleft on a return flight on Friday, January 5, in an attempt to set up a record for a flight from the Dutch East Indiesto Holland, was held up at Calcutta by the breaking of an engine starter. The flight from Batavia to Calcutta, adistance of 2,500 miles, was made in just over 15 hours' flying time. After the necessary repairs h'ad been done, themachine left for Karachi and was reported missing between there and Allahabad. Not long after it turned up at itsdestination, and on the morning of January 9 left for Amsterdam. The Postjager is a low-wing monoplane fittedwith three Wright '' Whirlwind '' • engines and has a cruising speed of over 200 m.p.h. It does not belong tothe Royal Dutch Air Lines, but to a committee which has been examining the possibilities of quicker air mailtransport between Holland and the East. COMING EVENTS . . . . —IT is reported that Pan American Airways is negotiat- ing with the Portuguese Government for permission to usethe Azores islands and Portuguese territory on regular transatlantic air connections. Meanwhile— FRENCH TRANSATLANTIC FLYING-BOATS THE Latecoere 300 flying-boat (four 650-h.p. Hispano engines), Croix du Sud, which recently flew non-stop between Marseilles and Saint Louis du Seagal, a distance of 2,675 miles, flew across the Southern Atlantic to Natal <m January3-4. It later flew on to Buenos Aires. The big Bteriot 5190 flying-boat, which was designed by the Italian engineer,Zappata, who formerly worked with the Bleriot firm, and which is fitted with engines of the same type as those usedin the Latecoere boat, is now in flying order after being re- paired since it caught on fire some time back. This aircraftis to be flown to Berre, near Marseilles, by Bossoutrot, and will eventually make a trip to South America. We under-stand that the Liore et Olivier 27 flying-boat (four 650-h.p. Hispanos) will.also make a transatlantic flight, piloted byM Bourdin. INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY FOR FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC SERVICE WE mentioned above that France is busy experiment-ing with various large flying-boats for the Transatlantic service. The Daily Telegraph states that Luft Hansa is tostart a fortnightly service between Stuttgart and Port Natal (Brazil) on February 3. According to The Times thefirst fast air mail service between Rome and Buenos Aires will be inaugurated on January 27, when Lombardi andMazotti, accompanied by two assistants, will fly a triple- engined Savoia-Marchetti 71 to Buenos Aires via Casa-blanca, Dakar, Natal (Brazil) and Rio de Janeiro. GOOD BASIC DESIGN IT appears that'the Bernard type " 81 G.R." machineis to be the parent of quite a family of new aircraft. We announced last week that from that design a long-rangebomber has been developed, and now we understand that a three-engined machine, also developed from the" 81," is being built for the Africa-South America con- nection. It will probably be fitted with three 575-h.p.Hispano-Suiza engines or three 600-h.p. Gnome-Rhones. The top speed should be about 186 m.p.h., and the rangeshould exceed 2,500 miles. AMERICAN NIGHT-FLYING INSTRUCTION FORK.L.M. A SIX-MONTHS' contract has been made betweenK.L.M. and Mr. Stark, an American authority on night flying. The contract calls for the instruction of K.L.M.personnel in this work. This instruction will shortly be commenced. It should be borne in mind that K.L.M.intends to operate the Holland-India service without halts at night, and the big new Fokker F.36, which will becompleted in a few months, may be used for this work. 57
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