NEW FLYING CRAFT.
ALMOST READY FO RTHE AIR. SOME LARGE MACHINES. lOmcial Wireless,) RUGBY, February 17. , The 'first of the great four-engined flying boats, which Short Brothers, of Rochester, have built for Imperial Airways, will be launched this week. It will be used overseas and along the Nile on the route to the Cape, which will shortly he opened. A Handlcy-Page 40-seater land machine is also nearing completion. The initial trials of both craft before entering their regular services will shortly begin. They will undergo tho customary official flying trials. They are much bigger and considerably Caster than any existing commercial machines.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18257, 19 February 1931, Page 7
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102NEW FLYING CRAFT. Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18257, 19 February 1931, Page 7
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