NEW FLYING-BOAT
SATISFACTORY TEST FLIGHT. RUGBY, Monday. The giant flying-boat Caledonia, the second of 29 aircraft now being built for Imperial' Airways Empire routes, was launched at Rochester yesterday, and underwent a test flight which is stated to have been satisfactory.
" The flying-boat will be completed in time for the Caledonia to leave on Monday for Felixstowe to be tested for a certificate of airworthiness. It has rarely happened that such a big aeroplane has been ready for submission to the Air Ministry tests within three days of its trial flight. The boat handled easily on the water and took off quickly, and as a result of the flight the boat was regarded as ready for fullload tests.
Meanwhile the flying-boat Canopus, which is the first of the series, is nearly ready for acceptance tests by Imperial Airways. The Canopus is regarded by its builders and other experts who have inspected her as a model of what, an efficient and luxurious flying-boat should be. “The Times” says she gives every promise of surviving the owners’ trials with credit. —(British Wireless.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 September 1936, Page 3
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