AIR MAIL DELAYS.
ONE 'PLANE FORCED DOWN. (Received O.SO a.m.) LOXDOX, February 8. After two delays owinjr to engine trouble and one to weather the new Imperial Airways flyinjr boat Castor, on her maiden Empire flight, took off from Southampton at 7.30 a.m. to-day. The flying boat Centaurus. homeward bound on her maiden trip from Alexandria, with I'a.-senpers and mails from South Africa, was forced down in bad weather near Le Havre last niglit. Sho was not damaged. The flying boat later reached Southampton.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 7
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