EMPIRE FLYING BOATS
SECOND OF NEW FLEET LAUNCHED. (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, September 10. The second of the fleet of 29 Empire flying boats under construction by Short Brothers was launched at Rochester to-day. Originally intended for preliminary long distance experimental flights in the North Atlantic air mail route, this boat, the Caledonia, owing to the loss of the Scipio off Crete recently, will have to go with the Canopus, the first of the new craft, into the regular service in the Mediterranean on the Empire routes. This will mean a delay of six weeks or more in the starting of the long range test flights, which will now probably nearly coincide with the early flights of the Mayo composite craft specially designed for the North Atlantic service. TRANS-ATLANTIC CROSSING FLYING BOAT ZEPHYR. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) New York, September 10. The Deutsche Lufthansa flying boat Zephyr, with a crew of four, landed here to-day after a 22-hours’ non-stop flight from Horta (Azores), making the first of a series of survey flights for a transatlantic service.
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Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 7
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179EMPIRE FLYING BOATS Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 7
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