Ear‐to‐ground
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology
ISSN: 0002-2667
Article publication date: 1 February 1970
Abstract
Captain W. J. Bright, D.F.C. and Captain F. Buxton of Terravia Services, Ascot, won the B.P. England‐Australia Air Race on handicap in a Britten‐Norman Islander with a time from London to Adelaide Section of 76 hours 41 minutes. Second and third places were taken by a Cessna 310 and a Piper Twin Comanche. The Islander, a ten‐place twin‐engine commuter airliner, was a standard version powered by two sixcylinder Lycoming 0‐540‐E 260 h.p. engines and was fitted with long‐range ferry tanks.
Citation
(1970), "Ear‐to‐ground", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 38-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034606
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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