London, Oct. 12.
A new colossus of the air made its maiden flight yesterday, when Imperial Airways gave a tea party 5,000 feet over London to mark the first official flight of a prototype of fourteen super "Ensign" air-liners, which will be the largest in regular operation in the world.
Several machines will be used on Continental routes carry! up to fourteen passengers, while others, of Which the Ensign will be one, will, with special modifications, carry 27 passengers by day and twenty by. night on an Empire land plane service between England and Calcutta.
The planes will be capable of flying. over 200 miles- an hour, and will represent a total capital outlay of £750,000.
Passengers on yesterday's flight. commented on the comfort and silence of their accommodation Reuter.
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