FLYING BOATS
OF ROYAL AIR FORCE.
PERFECT ORGANISATION.
RUGBY, February 12.
An official announcement of the Far East flight of the Royal Air Force, which is now nearing Singapore on its way to Australia, was issued yesterday. It shows how, with good advance organisation, a flight of four flying boats can be flown oyer immense distances and under varying conditions across sea and over land with speed and security. The flight is equipped with Super Marine Southampton metalhulled flying boats each with two Napier Lion engines and is under the command of Group-Captain H. M. Cavo-Brown-Cave.
When it has complete the whole cruise of 28,000 miles it will have carried out a service exercise never yet attempted by any other nation.
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Northern Advocate, 14 February 1928, Page 5
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