FORMATION FLIGHT TO BASRA
(British OJHclal Wireless.) RUGBY, 4th February. Three Royal Air Force Rangoon flying boats,. the first specimens of the military type of Short Calcutta, will make a formation flight from Felixstowe to Basra, a. distance of 3500 miles, leaving England within a week. The flight is in accordance with the normal methods by which seaplanes proceed to their flight stations. On arrival they, will meet three Southampton flying boats of No. 203. Squadron, which will be flown homo in formation. The Rangoong are fitted with three Bristol Jupiter engines each, and the reliance placed on them is demonstrated in the choice of route. They will fly overland 250 miles from Bordeaux to Marseilles, and again in two stages from Alexandria to Basra, alighting at Bagdad on the Tigris. The Mediterranean route, via Malta and Crete, is experimental, with a view to testing the possibilities of an alternative to the land sections of the Iridian air mail route between London and Athens.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 8
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164FORMATION FLIGHT TO BASRA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 8
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