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Aviation History
1936
1936 - 1521.PDF
8 FLIGHT. ADVERTISEMENTS. JUNE II. 1936. iait wettctutan ce LONG DISTANCE FLYING AT HIGH CRUISING SPEEDS High speed cruising has been demonstrated very effectively recently by two Airspeed Envoys fitted with Wolseley Scorpio engines. Visiting the Stockholm Exhibition one machine covered 3,381 miles in 23 hours, without the engines being touched. Fuel consumption was 22 gallons per hour, oil con sumption 2 quarts per hour. The engines were fitted with self starters and it was not even necessary to turn the propellers by hand to suck in. The other machine was flown on a prolonged engine test by Squadron Leader Hilton to Capetown and back, covering a distance of 15,726 miles in 7 days. ENVOY SERIES II AIRSPEED (1934) LIMITED, THE AIRPORT, PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND.
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