ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE
BOAT READY FOR TESTS REF DELUXE IN EMC IST (British Official Wifeless.) Reed, 2 p.m. RUGBY, July 7. The first Imperial. Airways TransAtlantic flying-boat, the Caribou, left Rochester yesterday for the experimental establishment at Felixstowe to undergo .official (tests. The Air Ministry announces that the first difficulties encountered in refuelling in flight have been overcome and that 1000 gallons of petrol can flow be passed from a tanker to a flying boat at. a height ot 1000 ft.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19985, 10 July 1939, Page 7
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