IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
CONTRACT WITH GOVERNMENT. USE OF FLYING BOATS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, October 31. Sir Eric Geddes, presiding at the annual meeting of Imperial Airways, said the company had agreed with the Government on the principal features of a long-term contract to replace the existing agreements when they lapsed. The new flying boats for Empire routes would provide sleeping accommodation, flying for 24 hours and stopping only to re-fuel. Subject to the provision of suitable ground organization, the speed of the new aircraft would enable services to be run to Australia, South Africa, and India in seven, four, and three days respectively. Referring to the Atlantic service, Sir Eric Geddes said that in addition to composite aircraft a normal flying boat was under construction with which it was hoped, experimentally, to cross the Atlantic in 1936.
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Southland Times, Issue 22728, 2 November 1935, Page 5
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