Bigger Planes for Trans-Allantic 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 probably be made by the nign speed Vfbatross land plane now under construction at Hatfield as well as by one or more of tho new 25-tou flying-boats being built at Rochester and by Mercury, the upper unit of the Short 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.. summer. The new flying-boats are similar in construction to the Caledonia and Cumbria but capable of carrying a load of more than 5000 pounon ncavier.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 6
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