AIR TRAVEL
CALCUTTA FLYING BOAT,
TRIAL BY BRITISH COMPANY
(British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
RUGBY, August 29. Sir Eric Geddee, chairman, and the other directors of Imperial Airways, are to-day making a trial trip from Southampton to the Channel Islands and back in one of the latest Calcutta type of flying boats which the company has just taken over from the Air Minister for use on the Empire air line in India. These craft each accommodate 15 passengers as well as a pilot, a wireless operator, and a steward, and have three air-cooled engines, developing 1500 horsepower.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20501, 31 August 1928, Page 9
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101AIR TRAVEL Otago Daily Times, Issue 20501, 31 August 1928, Page 9
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