NON-STOP FLIGHT
■ m Southampton to Alexandria iu Fast Time IMPERIAL AIRWAYS TEST (Received 20, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, F6b. 19. The Imperial Airwaya' flying bOat Caledonia, averaging 170 miies an hour, flew non-stop from Southampton. to Alexandria, which is several hundred miles greater than the Atlantie crossing. The flight occupied 13 hourS 55 minutes. The Daily Telegraph 's aviatioh expert says the flight waS not a test of the Caledonia 's range, which is far greater. It was one of a series in which various navigational and wireless tests will be, carried out. lt is iatended to make several more fiights before attempting to cross the north Atlantie in oue hop.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 31, 20 February 1937, Page 5
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