NEW FLYING-BOATS
ATLANTIC SERVICE DRY-DOCK PROVIDED [fbom our own correspondent] LONDON, March 12 Test flights of the new Boeing flyingboats, which are to l>e tried for an Atlantic service, will begin at the end of April. This flying-boat, when fully loaded, will weigh -18 tons. For the service of the new Boeings a special amphibian dry-dock lias been built and launched. It is designed to transport the big flying-boats either on land or water, and is so contrived that the living-boat will float into it, the whole'dock with its burden then being raised by means of the double row of buoyancy air tanks along either side. it is called "the galloping dry-dock," for it lias been shown in tests that jt can dive into the water, pick up a 45ton load, bring it ashore, and run it about at a speed of three miles an hour. The new Boeings will accommodate oO passengers, but for- Atlantic and Pacific services will not carry so many. Their maximum speed is about 200 m.p.h.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23001, 31 March 1938, Page 5
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