Bight more airliners have been or~ dered by Imperial Airways, three Ayingcboats and five four-engined Imndpiones. "With eighteen other aeroplanes in constmuetion this brings the Company's ect to 79 aircraft of 185,000 aggregate horsepower.
'The landplanes are the de 'Havil~ land D, H, 01 Monoplanes, generally Known' under the class" nome of Albatros, The engines are the new Gipsy. 12° alr cooled, supercharged. 500 hip. each, giving a cruising speed fon actual tests of over 200 m.p.h.
Built entirely of wood, on @ new aystem which combines great strength with reduced walt, the Albatross one of the world's outstanding com= mercial aeroplanes. {The first order or Albatrosses was given by the Air Ministry witha view to the trans~ Allantie service. "Two were ordered fof which the first has just undergone the' severest trials at Martlesham Heath, and is now in the factory being fited with de-icing apparatus and other equipment,
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