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Aviation History
1937
1937 - 1227.PDF
MAY 6, 1937. FLIGHT. 463 SOME TYPES WHICH MADE HISTORY IflUIIMiWUwiBBIMMMWi^^BaniMB (1) The Vickers Vimy with Rolls-Royce Eagle engines was the first aeroplane type to cross the Atlantic, to fly from England to S. Africa, and from England to Australia. All these flights were made in 1019. The Supermarine Sea Lion (2) won the Schneider contest in 1922, and (3) the Supermarine S.6B won it in 1931. The Bristol 138 (4) reached 50,000 ft. in 1936. The first Autogiro (5) was flown in England in 1925, and the Fairey monoplane (6) flew non-stop from Cranwell to Walvis Bay in 1933.
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