1200 MILES NON-STOP
NEW FLYING-BOAT'S TEST
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, February 26.
The Imperial Airways long-range flying-boat Cambria flew from Southampton to Foynes, the'new Atlantic airport at the mouth of the Shannon1, yesterday, and will carry out tests over the ■ Atlantic today and tomorrow. She carried a crew of six and four passenger who included Commandant Carroll, of the Irish Free State Air Force.
fhe Cambria is commanded by Captain Powell, who-took her on the 1200----mile non-stop flight round Great Britain on Sunday. It is expected that she will return to Southampton, next Sunday.*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 50, 1 March 1937, Page 8
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