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Aviation History
1937
1937 - 0181.PDF
JANUARY 21, 1937. FLIGHT. BRITISH The most advanced civil aircraft yet in service : the peerless Short Empire flying boat with four Bristol Pegasus XC engines. COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT The Current Range Reviewed (Illustrated mainly with "Flight" photographs) F OR the time being the British commercial aeroplane types available to operators are comparatively few in number (due, chiefly, to the demands of R.A.F. expansion) but as excellent as ever in quality. That there are gaps in 1he range is not to be disputed, but, on the other hand, Great Britain is building machines for certain types of commercial work the equals to which are not to be found abroad. The following notes indicate the main characteristics and scope of current types and their capabilities in the commercial field. AIRSPEED ONE of the fastest machines of its type in the world is the Airspeed Envoy Series III transport monoplane now in production at the Portsmouth airport. Any one of a variety of cabin arrangements may be specified, the accommodation ranging from four luxurious seats with tables, a lavatory and ample luggage space, to an eight-seater cabin, also with a lug gage compartment. On the left is an Airspeed Envoy fitted with Siddeley Cheetah IX engines in which form it is capable of 205 m.p.h. The singie- engined monoplane on the right, seen with undercarriage lowered, is the Lynx-engined Courier.
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