War Office contest in 1912 on Salisbury Plain is described; illustration of official attitude towards those who dared to fly and build airplanes by private enterprise; enclosed biplane to take 60-hp. Green engine designed by A. V. Roe; F. P. Raynham in enclosed Avro biplane beat existing duration record for all-British machines by making 7 1/2-hr. non-stop flight.
Twenty years of aviation
Airways
Airways ; 5 , n 5 ; p 161-162
1929
2 pages
2 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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Engineering Index Backfile | 1928
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