GIANT AEROPLANE
ATLANTIC MAIL SERVICE TEST FLIGHT OF CRAFT * [from our own- correspondent] LONDON, June li» At tlie Hatfield aerodrome, near London, the other day, a giant aeroplane was brought out of the hangars, lior engines broke into a deep-throated roar, and, to the cheers of the men who had built her, she rose steadily and easily into the clouds. This was the Albatross K2 t flagship of Britain's future transatlantic air mail fleet. She was making her first test flight. > Few people know what secrets are contained in her streamlined hull, but thousands of pounds are known to have been spc-nt in the preliminary reseacli work. That was to be expected, however, for Albatross E2 will have to undertake the most arduous task yet set an air liner —to fly regularly nonstop from Dublin to Newfoundland and thence on to New York. A sister-ship is being built to the order of the Air Ministry, and both aeroplanes will undertake experimental flights this year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22775, 8 July 1937, Page 8
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