AIR OFFICIAL STARTS FLYING-BOAT TOUR.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) RUGBY, September 30. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary of State for Air, left Plymouth at dawn to-day in a flying boat for a cruise through the Mediterranean to Egypt, across the Syrian desert to Iraq, and then down the Persian Gulf to India, on a visit to nearly all the Royal Air Force stations outside Great Britain. He will cover nearly 17,000 miles in five weeks, visiting in that time at least twenty Royal Air Force bases and stations, and inspecting units. The flight is being tnade in a Black burn Iris craft, the largest metal-hulled flying boat produced by Britain, which was used by Sir Samuel Hoare, the Aii Minister, in his Baltic cruise last year It is fitted with three Rolls-Royce Condor engines of 700 horse-power each, and when fully laden, weighs over 12 tons. It has two pilots and a crew.— British Official Wireless.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18581, 2 October 1928, Page 4
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