CO129-513-9 Proposals for civil and commercial aviation in Hong Kong- requests for air-routes between Hong Kong... 13-11-1928 - 30-9-1929 — Page 43

Extract from the "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST" of 7th March. 1929.

BRITI H PLANE..

Objects of Great Interest in Canton.

For Tuition Work.

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Canton March 5.

Of the ten light airplanes ordered some months ago

for the use of the Aviation Bureau from the A.V.Roe Company,

Manchester, England, four were delivered to Canton last

Friday, while the rest are already on the way, and are expected

very shortly.

The new planes were immediately unpacked, and as can be

imagined, were objects of great interest to the aviation staff.

The mechanical squad were soon at work on assembling the

machines, and it was hoped to carry out test flights yesterday.

Marshal Li Chai-sum, General Chan Ming-shu and other officials

were invited to witness the trials of the new machines.

These light planes are intended primarily for tuition

work in the Aviation School attached to the Aviation Bureau,

and consequently are equipped with dual controls. They are

fitted with four cylinder engines capable of driving the

planes at 90 miles per hour at a very economical rate of fuel

consumption, and apear to be well suited for school purposes.

It is also intended to use them to carry out further tests

along the proposed air mail routes. Canton Gazette.

AN AERIAL DISPLAY.

On Friday last, the Far East Aviation bomoany delivered

the first four Avro "vian" machines fitted with Cirrus Mark

III engines, to the Canton Aviation Bureau. On Saturday

moming the work of unpacking the machines was carried out;

and the undercarriages were fitted. On the 4th the work of

erecting the planes was started in earnest, and by Tuesday

evening the four machines were practically ready for test.

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