EPIC FLIGHT
royal air force undertaking
CRUISE OF 28,000 MILES
(British Official News.) Pres* Association—Bj Wireless—Copyright
RUGBY, February 12
(Received February Id, at noon.) The official log of tho Far East flight of the Royal Air Force, which is now nearing Singapore on its way to Australia, was issued yesterday. It shows how, with good advance organisation, a flight of four flying boats can be flown over immense' distance r and under varying conditions, across sea and over land, with speed and security. The flight is ©quipped with super-marine Southampton metalhulled flying boats, each with two Napier-Lion engines, and is under the command of Group-captain H. M. Brown-Cave.
When it has completed the whole cruise of ‘28,000 miles it will have carried out a service exercise never yet attempted by any other nation.
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Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 8
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133EPIC FLIGHT Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 8
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