Construction is shortly to be commenced on a great all-metal air express driven by three 1,000 horsepower engines, and capable of flying 2,000 miles without alighting.
This now air giant is intended for the all red Empire Air Route, and will be able to fly from London te Malta without a stop, thus jcliminating any landing other fon Empire territory. It will wei between 25 and 80 tons and wilh carry seven tons of petrol. Each of its engines weighs a ton, and wil use 50 gallons of petrol an hour.
An-aerodrome. has already been. prepared at Malta, and a temporary time table for an air service between London and Cairo with one stop only fat Malta has been tawn up. Leaymeals being served while in fight. After an hour's stop another of leviathans would leave for (Cairo, arriving. there at 3 p.m. following day, setting down its nails and passengers only 31 hours after they had left London.
It is calculated that a fleet of eight lof these new -all-metal-air expresses would be able to maintain a daily service in each direction between [London and Cairo.
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