EMPIRE FLYING BOATS
SECOND OF NEW FLEET LAUNCHED TO ENTER MEDITERRANEAN SERVICE. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, September 10. (Received September 11, at noon.) The second of the fleet of 29 Empire flying boats under construction by Short Brothers, was. launched at Rochester to-day. Originally intended for preliminary long-distance experimental flights in connection with the North Atlantic air mail route, this boat, the Caledonia, will, owing to the loss of the Scipio off Crete recently, have to go with the Canopus, the first of the new craft, into regular service in the Mediterranean on the Empire routes.. This will mean a delay of six weeks or more .in the starting of the long-range test nights, which will now probably nearly coincide with the early flights of the Mayo composite craft specially designed for the North Atlantic service.
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Evening Star, Issue 22441, 11 September 1936, Page 9
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140EMPIRE FLYING BOATS Evening Star, Issue 22441, 11 September 1936, Page 9
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