OFF TO BASRA
R.A.F. FLYING-BOATS
(British Official Wirdesa.) RUGBY, 7th February.' Three Royal Air Force Rangoon flying" boats left Felixstowe to-day on the first stage of a 3500 miles flight to Basra, in Irak, where they "will relieve three Southampton flying boats attached to Squadron 203. Each of the Sangoon s is fitted with three Jupiter Bristol engines, and the reliance placed upoa them is such that a route involving large stretches of overland flying' Tvill be- followed. The longest land stretch is from Aloxandretta to Bagdad, whera the flying boats will alight on thsj Tigr}?.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 9
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96OFF TO BASRA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 9
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