British Machines for the Use of Ministry of Navy On February 1 two Gypsy Moth Haviland aeroplanes arrived Shanghai consigned to the Chinese Ministry of Navy from England. They will be used at the: Hungjao Aerodrome by the naval cadets for training purposes and the training will be under Lieut. Hansel late of the German aviation corps, The machines are the latest word in aeroplane design and constietion and are the best products, of their class, produced in England.
Because they are training machines their speed is only 60 miles per hour in the air and they can be brought down inding speed of 25—B0 miles which is a special feature of their construction. This ix made possible through their being equipped with slotted wings, a British invention which is gonerally considered the greatest contribu. tion to safe flying produced in the Past several years, They are not equipped with pontoons and can be brought down only on land.
The machines have 100 h.p. engines of the Cirrus make, thoroughly English in design and construction. They carry the pilot and the novice and have gasoline tank provision for ling in the ale eight hours without coming They have been used before by the Chinese Government in its various services and have proved especially well fitted for the task for which they were constructed. It is said that several more are coming out at a tater date and that these are the advance shipment of an order that will bring over a dozen to China.
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