BIG FLIGHTS
SAN FRANCISCO TO HONG-KONG
AMERICA CONSTRUCTING A HUGE TRIPLANE (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright New York, March 10. It is understood tlmt the Navy Department will begin the construction of a huse triulane to attempt a flight from San Francisco to Hong-Kong, stopping ut Honolulu, Wake Island, Guam, and Manila. It will be equipped with nine Liberty motors capable of developing 3500 horsc-nower, will have- a 140-foot wine-spread, G7ft. hulls, carrying a crow of sixteen men and a total, load of thirty tons. The machine will have a speed of 85 knots, and a., cruising range of .2100 nautical miles.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn. CAIRO~TO~CAPE BOMB-DROPPING MACHINE SELECT- ' ED FOE VAN RYNEVELD. Cape Town, March 9. The- Government has selected a bombdrooping machine to complete the Cairo fliirht; The machine is being, put together and tested at Pretoria, and is shortly to fly to Bulawayo for the use of Van llvneveld, whose machine, tlio Silver Queen, was reported recently to have been damaged—Eeuter. BRITISH AHTESTIMATES London, March 9. The Air Estimates total ,£25,00ft,000,. and orovide for a. personnel of 29,730, exclusive of India—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assu.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 143, 12 March 1920, Page 7
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183BIG FLIGHTS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 143, 12 March 1920, Page 7
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