BRITISH FLYING BOAT
TEST FLIGHT TO ALEXANDRIA Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyrigh\ LONDON, February 18. The Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia, averaging 170 miles an hour, flew non-stop from'Southampton to Alexandria, several hundred miles greater than the Atlantic’ crossing. The flight occupied 815 minutes. ; The ‘ Daily Telegraph’s ’ aviation, expert says the flight was not a test of the Caledonia’s range, which is far greater ; it was one of a series in which various navigational wireless tests are carried out, and it is intended to make several more before attempting to cross the North • Atlantic in one hop.
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Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 15
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