Radio Broadcast (May 1928-Apr 1929)

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A Giant British Radio-Eq, THIS is a close-up of one of the giant DeHavilland 66 Hercules multiple-engined airships, fitted with three Bristol Jupiter 450-horsepower engines, built for the British Imperial Airways for the new passenger air route between England and India via Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia. The radio cabin is the most spacious yet fitted in any airship and contains the best apparatus now available. ipped Passenger Airplane Under the new international aerial regulations, a radio operator and mechanic is carried to attend to the apparatus and operate it. Previously the radio equipment was carried in the cockpit and operated by the pilot. The power of the transmitter is 150 watts. The set is slung on elastic bands to reduce vibration; the wind-driven generator, minus its propellor, is visible just under the top wing