FLYING BOATS
TO PATROL EMPIRE TRADE ROUTES (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) London, September 18. A fleet of Blackburn Rolls-Royce Iris flying boats, the most , powerful ever constructed in Britain’ is nearing completion at Brough, Yorkshire. The fleet will be used to equip the Empire air base at Basra, which will supplement that at Singapore in assisting the Navy to patrol the trade routes. TRIAL OF NEW ZEPPELIN (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) London, September 18. At Friedrichshafen the new giant Zeppelin LZI27 held tier trial flight over Lake Constance at a height of 300 feet, using petrol. She was accompanied by aeroplanes amid the cheers of thousands and the peals of church bells.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 301, 20 September 1928, Page 11
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112FLYING BOATS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 301, 20 September 1928, Page 11
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