BRITISH FLYING BOATS
LONG-RANGE EXPERIMENTS (Britiifa Official WiralaM.) Praia ' ■Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, December 17. Two of the flying boats of the Empire fleet being'built by the Short Company for Imperial Airways aro intended for long-range experiments. The first of these craft is now at Southampton being prepared for long-distance trials. It is equipped with a fuel tank of 2,320 gallons capacity, and, at a cruising speed of 160 miles an hour the attainable range in still air will be 3,300 miles. The crew will number three. The commercial load will consist of _ T,ooolb avoirdupois-of mails. There will be no passenger accommodation in. this craft, which differs from the standard boats in the new-fleet'by being laden to an all-up weight of 45i0001b, against the 40,5001 b of the standard craft.
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Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 17
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