RAN LIKE A WATCH
NEW AIRLINER FOR THE
ATLANTIC
A RECORD NON-STOP TRIP
(British Official Wireless.) (Received March 6, 11.50 a.m.)
RUGBY, March 5.
The Caledonia, the Imperial Airways long-range flying-boat to be used witli her sister-ship Cambria for the Atlan« tic service, flew non-stop from Alex* andria yesterday (230Q miles) in tha record time of fifteen hours. The distance was covered at an average .speed of 153 miles per hour. On the outward flight the average was 170 miles, and the time 13 hours 35 minutes.
Captain Wilcockson said on landing that the Caledonia ran like a watch.
The Imperial Airways flying-boat Capella, which left Southampton for Alexandria yesterday on the India and Australia service with twelve, passengers, returned to her base qn Southampton Water three hours later owing to bad weather ahead.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 9
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134RAN LIKE A WATCH Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 9
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