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INTERIOR OF HERACLES TYPE AIR LINER 
OF IMPERIAL AIRWAYS. 
Pagfe Forty-six. 
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Th is photograph shows the forward 
cabin of one of Imperial Airways’ air¬ 
liners of the Heracles class. These are 
the largest passenger-carrying aeroplanes 
used on regular services in the world. 
They are used on Imperial Airways’ ser¬ 
vices between London and Paris, and 
they each carry thirty-eight passengers 
and a crew of four—two officers and two 
stewards. 
Their span is 130 feet, and they weigh 
nearly thirteen and a half tons, and their 
four engines of 2,200 horse-power give 
them a speed of 130 miles an hour. 
The Hannibal class of aeroplane, which 
is used on the Indian route and on cer¬ 
tain sections of the African route, is simi¬ 
lar in appearance to the Heracles class, 
but carries twenty-four passengers and 
has a larger space reserved for His 
Majesty’s mails. 
