The old Imperial cutaway-type pictures have proved popular here, so this is the one for the Atalanta:
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Promised to get to Delhi in something interesting, so now it's time to go in this:
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It is, of course, the Avro Ten, British licence-built Fokker F-VII 3m.
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Imperial did have two of them: G-ABLU Apollo (which crashed in Belgium in 1938) and this one, G-AASP Achilles.
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Achilles was chartered to BOAC at its inception, but destroyed by enemy action in 1940 (on the ground in England I seem to remember).
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You may have noticed that the weather has taken a turn for the worse...
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Thought it might be interesting to try to fly in Monsoon conditions...
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Famous last words. I just made it, but there was at least one very hairy moment, as you shall see.
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Useful dials there outside on the engines that they refer to. Some large aircraft of a slightly earlier period (including airships) actually had an engineer sitting with them throughout the flight, so this is a technological advance.
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