BIGGER 'PLANES.
TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHTS. THREE TYPES OP CRAFT (British Official Wireless.) Received Thursday, 7.5 p.m. RUGBY, March 16. Experimental flights to Canada and the United States this year will prob ably be made by ’the high-speed Albatross land plane now under construction at Hatfield as well as by one or more of the new 25-ton flying-boats being built at Rochester and by Mercury, the upper unit of the Shortt and Mayo composite aircraft. The Empire flying-boats Caledonia and Cambria are now being fitted with mail and passenger carrying equipment for established services to Africa, India and the Far East and will not, cross the Atlantic thi.j summer. The new flying-boats are similar in construction to the Caledonia and Cambria but capable of carrying a load of more than 5000 pounds heavier.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1938, Page 6
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