ATLANTIC FLIGHTS.
FLYING-BOAT OVERHAULED. CLIPPER ALSO MAKING TRIP. RUGBY. July 1. The giant Empire flving-boat Caledonia, which has just been launched after undergoing the final overhaul at the Imperial Airways works at Southampton, on Monday will leave the Shannon on her epic 2000 miles flight across the Atlanl » It is expected tuat the journey will take 18 hours. The American Sikorsky 5428 Clipper, which is already in position for her journey in the opposite direction, will leave her base at Botwood, New foundland at the same time, so that the ships will pass each other in midAtlantic. ...
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 3 July 1937, Page 9
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97ATLANTIC FLIGHTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 3 July 1937, Page 9
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