GIANT FLYING-BOAT
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS CRAFT
(British Official Wireless:) RUGBY, September 13. . The giant flying-boat Caledonia, the second of the 29 aircraft now being built for the Imperial Airways Empire routes, was launched at Rochester yesterday and underwent a test flight which is stated to have been satisfactory. , _ The flying-boat will be completed m time for the Caledonia to leave •on Monday for Felixstowe to be tested for a certificate of airworthiness. It has rarely happened that such a big aeroplane has been ready for submission to the Air Ministry tests with, in three days of its .trial flight. The boat was handled easily on the water and took off quickly, and as a result of the flight the boat was regarded as ready for full-load tests. Meanwhile the flying-boat Canopus, which is the first of the series, is nearly ready for acceptance tests by Imperial Airways. The Canopus is regarded by its builders and other experts who have inspected her as a model of what an efficient and luxurious flying-boat should be. "The Times" .says she gives every promise of surviving the owners' trials with credit.
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Evening Post, Issue 66, 15 September 1936, Page 9
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186GIANT FLYING-BOAT Evening Post, Issue 66, 15 September 1936, Page 9
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