SEAPLANE DOCK
LAND BASES SUPERSEDED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received noon.) RUGBY, October 9. ■ A test was made at Southampton yesterday by the Imperial Airways of the value for commercial purposes of the Royal Air Porce seaplane dock. A Shont-Calcutta-Empire flying-boat was clocked, and certain routine overhaul work, was carried out. The seaplane dock lent for the purposes is normally with the fleet at Portland. The speed at which aircraft can be docked and the time required • for normal maintenance operations, as compared with that needed in* a shore base, were considered.
Further tests will be made to determine whether .there would be any financial advantage in using a floating dock in preference to a shore base oh the England-India-Australia route, which will be operated by flyingboats.
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Northern Advocate, 11 October 1928, Page 5
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