BUILDING EMPIRE FLYING BOATS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 103, 9 April 1936, Page 3

BUILDING EMPIRE FLYING BOATS

FOR AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE 3.000 MEN AT WORK (By Air Mail..—Special Correspondent.) LONDON, March Skeletons in stainless steel and duralumin of great hulls, enormous wings, tails, fins and ailerons, fill the shops here of the aeroplane works of Short Bros.,* in -which v the 29 / new Empire(flying boats V are -being built, I for the*; Englaud-Australia f mail seri ■ pH More : ,than i» 3000 f are en- ■ gaged,^some|on|andiii'sthe hulls, and tothors|f ceding .‘gigantic machine tools but | Alre.?dy)j|a|[irow,|l of S hulls--stakeyshape.ja:‘AllSof nhemfsnveltwo'or ii in iu'w%iiini; ogtr 'W" ’•? the * boatsyjare W.fiuishedjand. will all ■'•.be» ginnijigJ with <*o,” after Navy, such as Caledonia, Cambria, Castor, Centurion. Design was only begun nine months ago and 6300 working drawings for this new type of flying boat are already in use. Others are in preparation as the work proceeds. Each boat is to weigh 17£ tons fully loaded. The scene suggests , a great ship like the Queen Mary in the building.