ONE-STOP FLIGHT
ACROSS SOUTH ATLANTIC
USE OF FLOATING AERODROME
NATAL (Brazil), November 8.
A German flying-boat, piloted by; Rudolph yon Klausbruch, with four'com* panions, landed here this aftornoon, after a one-stop flight across the South; Atlantic Ocean, nine hours after being; catapulted from the German steamer Westfalen in mid-ocean.
The flying-boat reached the .Wostfalea on Tuesday aftor a six-hour flight from Bathurst, West Africa. i Tho aviators are testing the proposed regular mail service from Europe to South America.
Tho Westfalen, which is a permanent floating aerodrome, is maintaining her position 950 miles east of Natal.
According to the plans, the aeroplanes will land-alongside the Westfalea and bo hoisted on to the deck. The mail will then be transferred to another aeroplane, which will be catapulted off the deck of tho vessel. v
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 114, 10 November 1933, Page 7
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