GIANT FLYING BOATS
TRANSATLANTIC SERVICE GERMAN COMPANY’S EFFORTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, January 13(Received January 14, at 11.40 a.m.) Two representatives of the R ampler aircraft works have gone to America with a view to forming a company to carrv out a transatlantic aerodrome service by means of Rumpler giant allmetal Hying boats, which have a wing spread of 282 ft. and are equipped with ton 800 horse-power motors, capable of a speed of 160 miles an hour. It is predicted that they will regularly cross every twenty-tour hours, carrying 130 passengers and a crow __ot thirty-five. The estimated fare is £73, and the route is via tho Azores and Newfoundland.
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Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 6
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111GIANT FLYING BOATS Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 6
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