Popular Flying in 1935

[loglickychops]

Can anyone help identify the aircraft featured on the cover of the April 1935 edition of Popular Flying magazine. It's titled 'Speeding Up' and shows a white twin engined bi-plane tri-fin taildragger just off the ground at a grass field. The tricycle undercarrige has closely spatted tail and main wheels, with the latter being mounted directly onto the lower mainplane. It says Imperial Airways on the side and has 4 large, square passenger windows. The pilots sit at the top of the fuselage in a mutli-paned enclosed cockpit. The nose has a definate DH look to it (in my opinion anyway) and has a light fitted into the tip, very much like that of the DH Comet.

I recieved this framed front cover recently and would very much like to learn more about the aricraft featured. Any help would be greatly appreciated


...Log

[Yozzer]

Vickers Vanguard perhaps?
http://www.virtualarad.net/orizont_aviatic/ianuarie_2003/articol3/poza7.jpg

[loglickychops]

Thanks for the quick reply, but my aircraft is much smaller - maybe about a quarter the size. Also, the main undercarrige has only one wheel on each side. You got the passenger windows right though.

Hope this helps to narrow the search

..Log

[Eric Mc]

Boulton Paul BP71A?

Although it does have a tailwheel rather than a tricycle undercarriage.

[Yozzer]

and looks like this:
http://www.imperial-airways.com/img208.gif

[Eric Mc]

Thank's Yozzer - posting pictures is beyond me at the moment.

[loglickychops]

Thanks ever so much. This is exactly what my picture shows. I'm off to trawl the web for more info now.

Cheers!