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1944
1944 - 0225.PDF
LIGHT, eb. 3rd. You wouldn't send the "Queen Elizabeth" trading at West African river jetties.I No shipping man would use an ocean greyhound to deliver print shirtings and collect groundnuts. It is a question of suitability, and it applies equally to air transport. While the main routes are served by giant aircraft having every scientific aid to navigation, the humbler branch lines demand an essentially simple and smaller vehicle, with unsupercharged, ungeared engines of proved reliability driving fixed-pitch propellers for travel at moderate speeds and altitudes, non-retracting undercarriage, simplified climate-insulated airframe structure for easy repair by local tradesmen of any continent— in short a robust " utility truck of the air " which can be operated with a minimum of ground organisation, almost on an owner-driver basis. Such a vehicle is the Dragon Rapide, tested and proven in peace and war, now in continuous production and ubiquitous service behind the war fronts, ready in numbers to serve the tasks of reconstruction. DRAGON RAPIDE a product of DE HAVILLAND In the attack today— On the trade routes of the future AIRCRAFT ,*if^|»«<5te: 1
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