DUBLIN TO OTTAWA.
EVE OF BRITISH FLIGHT. FOKKER MONOPLANE READY. . , v y LONDON. Aus- 18. A. Sna >M- , T • * ,„4 Mr. Leslie Hamilton and LieutenantColonel Mmchin, an Imperial airways pilot, have arrived at Bristol from Amsterdam in a Fokker monoplane cn route to Dublin. There they will take oft on a transatlantic flight to Ottawa. The machine has no wireless. It vrin carrv four and a-half tons of petrol in ten tanks. It has no floats for use in the event of a descent. Mr. Hamilton says his only regret is that the machine is not an all-British one. Time did not permit of a special machine being built.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 11
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109DUBLIN TO OTTAWA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 11
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