EIGHT-TON CARRIERS.
PROBLEMS OF LONG FLIGHT^. tßeceived 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. Major-General J. E. B. Seely, Undersecretary to the Air Department, speaking in the House of Commons, on the adoption of the Air vote of £45,000,000, announced many aviation novelties. A new seaplane has five engines and carries foe tons at a hundred miles an hour. The Department is experimenting with machines of eight engines, carrying eight tons. Other novel machines will possess Unprecedented properties, and unparalleled speed, while new types of commercial flying boats for the great rivers are under trial. Wireless inventions for piloting machines in fogs and bad Weather have proved successful, and will probably solve many difficulties of long distance flight. The whole resources of the Air Force •vili be available to assist civilian aviation. Britain was more advanced in civil a-riation than any other country. The Department was concentrating its first efforts on mail carrying from Cairo to India, owing to the strategic importance or that route.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 64, 15 March 1919, Page 5
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