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THE AVRO BI-PLANE

We propose using the Avro Biplane, equipped with 110 H.P., Le Rhone Rotary Engine, for passenger carrying and commercial work.

This aircraft is manufactured by the A.V. Roe Company of England.

The AVRO has never been known to break or fall apart in the air

Over 30,000 passengers have been carried by the manufacturers during the five months beginning April 1, 1919, without one fatality.

As compared with stationary types it is far better adapted to territory with small landing grounds and broken up lands such as is found in New England. 

The lightness of its engine permits it to be "sideslipped" and the balanced rudder gives the ship an immediate responsive control directionally. This enables the machine to be landed in a small area and does not require the long glide necessary in landing stationary types.

The three seated-two passenger type is known as the 504 K. The weight empty is 1230 pounds; with full load 1823 at ground level is 90 miles per hour. Its natural cruising speed is 80 miles per hour. Its landing speed is slightly under 35 miles per hour. It will climb to 10,000 feet under twenty minutes. Price F.O.B. New York, $6000, Skiis $50, Copper tipped propellor $90, and tire, tube and wheel, $50.

Performance; will take off under any condition in less than 100 feet; will climb at the rate of 650 feet per minute up to 10,000 feet; ceiling is from 18,000 to 20,000 feet. Equipped with skiis in winter and wheels or pontoons in summer it is an all year round machine. it is much nicer and speedier craft for operating on water than the average flying boat.

According to the Boston Post of January 30, 1920 the first machine of this type delivered to the International Aircraft Corporation of Boston made the distance from Worcester to Boston in 18 minutes or at the rate of two miles per minute.