REVOLUTIONISING AIR TRAVEL.—lmperial Airways Ltd., the pioneer British air-line, are at present engaged on a comprehensive scheme to speed up and improve in every way the service on their main routes. With the object of eliminating accident risks as far as possible, many safety devices are being built into the sixteen flying boats at present under construction, the most important and essential being a radio-direction-finding system. Preliminary trials have proved most satisfactory and, as demonstrated by the Caledonia (above) which flew non-stop from Southampton to Alexandria, a distance several hundred miles greater than that of the Atlantic crossing, at an average speed of 170 miles an hour, the practicability of a regular trans-Atlantic service using flying boats has been amply proved.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20668, 5 March 1937, Page 12

REVOLUTIONISING AIR TRAVEL.— lmperial Airways Ltd., the pioneer British air-line, are at present engaged on a comprehensive scheme to speed up and improve in every way the service on their main routes. With the object of eliminating accident risks as far as possible, many safety devices are being built into the sixteen flying boats at present under construction, the most important and essential being a radio-direction-finding system. Preliminary trials have proved most satisfactory and, as demonstrated by the Caledonia (above) which flew non-stop from Southampton to Alexandria, a distance several hundred miles greater than that of the Atlantic crossing, at an average speed of 170 miles an hour, the practicability of a regular trans-Atlantic service using flying boats has been amply proved.