Channel Crossed By Helicopter
LONDON, August 27. Britain’s first airline helicopter Channel crossing was made today, says the “Evening Standard.” ' A Westland Sikorsky S5l fourseater of Silver City Airways flew the 42 miles from Lympne, Kent, to Calais in half an hour. This was nine days after the Ministry of Civil Aviation had given the company Britain’s first international helicopter licence. # The helicopter was making the first of a series of experimental flights that will continue for the next eight months. Silver City plans to carry freight and passengers across the Channel by helicopter, and ultimately to have big car-carrying helicopters to replace the freight aircraft they now use on the cross-Channel car ferry.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27441, 30 August 1954, Page 11
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