FLYING-BOAT TO BE RECONSTRUCTED
MAILS ON COORONG NOT BADLY DAMAGED DARWIN, December 14. The Imperial Airways flying-boat Coorong, which was driven ashore and pounded by the waves at Darwin, is understood to be insured for its full value. It cost £60,000.' It will be dismantled where it lies and shipped to England to be reconstructed. Although the postal officials at Darwin refuse to make available the amount of mails aboard the ’Coorong, the percentage damaged, or the addressees of the consignment, it is known that the mails suffered little damage and are consigned mostly to Brisbane, Sydney and New Zealand. NON-STOP FLIGHT TO CEYLON FLYING-BOAT ARRIVES FROM SINGAPORE (Independent Cable Service) SINGAPORE, December 13. The first of the three Short Sunderland flying-boats which are attempting a non-stop flight from Singapore to Ceylon has arrived. The second aeroplane landed a Nancowry Island with motor trouble and the third stopped to pick up the occupants of the disabled aeroplane and then flew on to Tokyo. JAPANESE BUY GERMAN AIR LINERS TOKYO, December 13. Japan has purchased five of the 26seater Focke-Wulf Genhan monoplanes similar to the aeroplane which broke the Berlin to Tokyo record and later crashed in the Pacific.
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Southland Times, Issue 23692, 15 December 1938, Page 6
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