HUGE FLYING-BOAT
SYDNEY, April 21. The Blackburn Company has designed and plans to build as- a -private venture a six-engined flyingTboat weighing 138 tons with a pressurised cabin for high-altitude flying.. It will be able to carry 160 passengers and 31.000 pounds of freight for 2500 miles non-stop at a cruising speed .of 270 miles an hour, or 85 passengers and 3500 pounds of freight for a'.fifcfn-stop ocean hop of 4300 miles at>>2Bo-toiles an hour. >...<«..
Meanwhile, says the Society of British Aircraft Constructors-, 22 Sunderland military flying-boats are being converted for commercial flying on Empire routes. One of these recently flew from England to Karachi in 34 hours, 28 of which were spent in "th* air. -'".;.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1945, Page 3
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