NON-STOP FLIGHTS.
ENGLAND TO NEW YORK. FLYING-BOAT TESTS. LONDON, Jan. 6. By filling up with petrol in mid-air, Imperial Airways flying-boats are expected soon to fly non-stop from England to New York. For two years, the aviation correspondent of the Daily Express reveals. Imperial Airways has been conducting secret experiments in air fuelling. . The tests, directed by Sir Alan Cobharii, were designed to find a method whereby flying-boats, after taking off with a small petrol load, might he filled up from a tanker flying beneath before setting out on a long flight. There is reason to hope that within a few weeks the method will have been perfected to an extent to ■ make it possible for the flying-boat Cambria to ly non-stop from the English coast to New York. ■ Hitherto, owing to the impossibility of taking off with a sufficiently great petrol load, both British and American flying-boats have been obliged to break their journey at Newfoundland to refuel.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 10
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