[Photograph] Imperial Airways Short L.17 Scylla G-ACJJ

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Original b/w photo 18x13cm. Good with some creasing. Undated c1934-35. This is without any captions or stamps to the verso, and may have been prepared by Imperial or Short. It shows a crowd viewing the craft outside a hangar possibly at Croydon, with another partially identifiable craft parked up behind ("Imperial Airways London G-AAC-", apparently one of its surviving Armstrong Whitworth Argosys, which it retired in 1935). "Scylla" (G-ACJJ) was one of just two 4-engine 39-seat luxury biplanes Imperial Airways commissioned in 1933, to supplement its fleet of HP42s after Handley Page asked too much for two additional craft. It was used on European routes, with its first flight on 26 March 1934. Both were retired in 1940 when Scylla was destroyed in a gale, and "Syrinx" (G-ACJK) scrapped. N° de ref. del artículo 5023

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