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1935
1935 - 0673.PDF
MARCH 28, 1935- ADVERTISEMENTS. FLIGHT. 7 An Italian air transport operates over the Alps with six planes, each of which is fitted with 3 Siddeley "Lynx" 215 h.p. engines. 2,000,000 kilometres have been flown without any mishap. The engines have run 33,575 hours—equivalent to 1,343 hours per engine—and the planes have carried 20,000 passengers and 350 tons of mails and cargo. Jaguar 400 h.p. engines which are fitted in five Imperial Airways A.W, "Argosys" have exceeded 10,480,000 engine miles in Europe and North Africa. The eight "Atalantas" fitted with 4 "Serval" 240 h.p. engines, have flown over 2,815,000 engine miles in South Africa and India In Europe and the Near East, "Lynx" engines in two Avro Ten planes have flown 1,242,000 engine-miles, and "Genet Major" engines n three Westland "Wessex" planes have flown 713,700 engine-miles. All these performances have been accomplished with low fuel consumption and low maintenance and repair costs. ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY MOTORS LTD., COVENTRY, AS 96 ENGLAND Kindly mention "Flight" when corresponding with advertisers.
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