Princess Flying-Boats For Pacific Planned
LONDON. August 10. The British Overseas Airways Corporation is studying plans to use Britain’s three giant 140-ton Princess flying-boats on trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific routes. The introduction of the 200-seater flying-boats into these services will depend on the success of a new, powerful type of propeller-turbine engine now being built, which would give the Princesses a 5000-mile range. But Sir Miles Thomas, chairman of 8.0.A.C., said last night it wou’fl be at least two years before the engine had been built and tested.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27426, 12 August 1954, Page 11
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