Improved model of Pitcairn "Mailwing" powered with " Whirlwind"; has high speed of 128 m.p.h. and lands at 45 m.p.h.; fireproof mail compartment twice size of Mailwing compartment; full night-flying equipment; welded steel fuselage; wing span 33 ft.; wing wires attach to fittings inside instead of outside wings, openings being covered with celluloid windows for inspection. (See also The "Super-Mailwing." Aviation vol. 25, no. 9, Aug. 25, 1928 pp. 593 and 614-616, 3 figs)


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    Title :

    Pitcairn. The "super-mailwing."


    Additional title:

    Aero Digest


    Published in:

    Aero Digest ; 12 , n 5


    Publication date :

    1928


    Remarks:

    1 Fig.


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    Pitcairn. The "super-mailwing."

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