NEW FLYING BOATS.
A LONG JOURNEY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 16. Four new flying boats with which No. 205 Flying Boat Squadron, stationed at Singapore, is to be reequipped, yesterday left Pembroke Dock on an 8000-mile formation flight to Singapore. This is the first time an overseas squadron has lieen re-equipped by air. The machines arc manned by the personnel of No. 210 Flying Boat Squadron under Squadron-Leader Lang. They are due to arrive at Singapore on March 2, stopping for four days at Naples, two days at Basra, and five days at Karachi.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 43, 18 January 1935, Page 7
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95NEW FLYING BOATS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 43, 18 January 1935, Page 7
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