OCTOBER 3T,

1935.

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maximum for the landplane and 134 m.p.h. for the seaplane. The cruising speeds are approximately 125 m.p.h. and 120 m.p.h. respectively. These figures point to very efficient aerodynamic design. The mileages per gallon are 6| and 6 respectively, or 67 and 65 passenger miles per gallon. It should not be difficult to find uses for such a machine on unsubsidised work. A feature of the original Scion was its quietness. The new machine, with four engines instead of two, does not appear to be any worse off in the matter of noise, and this should be another strong point in its favour. The first Scion Senior has just been put through its flying tests and will shortly be delivered to the purchasers, the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company. For use in the East this machine has rather fewer seats than the standard, and wickerwork seats are adopted for coolness. Fundamentally, the Scion Senior may be said to be the logical development of the earlier twin-engined machine, with which it shares its main structural and aerodynamic features. It is a high-wing cantilever monoplane of metal construction, with the four Pobjoy Niagara engines mounted abreast on the leading edge of the wing, into which they are neatly faired. The first machine of the type has passed its first flying tests as a seaplane, but the next to come along will probably have a wheel undercarriage. In our general arrangement drawings both

HANDVCHEELS POR . RUDDER FLAP ELEVATOR FLAP?

The grouping, in the stern, of the elevator and rudder control leads is shown in the upper drawing. The sprockets and small pulleys are for the rudder and elevator " tab " controls. The lower diagram shows how these control leads are arranged, types of undercarriage are shown, and it will be seen that both fit into the design very well. Owing to the fact that the fuselage of the Scum Senioi

p an aerodynamic desis ,.*.h a good per.or...^..^e .u =(jiie ui Uit- relatively low power (four objoy Niagara engines of 90 h.p. each;. The top centre photograph on this page affords an interesting comparison between ancient and modern transport on the Medway, at Rochester. {Flight photographs./