BRITISH AIR MINISTER TOURS SCANDINAVIA
TRIP IN SEAPLANE TEST OF FLYING-BOATS British Wireless — Press As:n .Copyright Reed. 11.22 a.m. RUGBY, Saturday. The British Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, 'travelling in one of the seaplanes which left Felixstowe yesterday on a month’s Scandinavian tour, reached Oslo yesterday evening. The flight was made at an average speed of 100 miles an hour, and heavy rain was encountered along the Dutch Coast. Sir Samuel Hoare is the guest of the British Minister, and Captain Ritser Larsen, of the Royal Norwegian Navy, the well-known polar explorer, has been attached to him. He intends to visit the Danish Aero Show at Copenhagen, after which he may return home in one seaplane, leaving the others to complete the tour. After this cruise some new British flying-boats will be submitted to a more drastic test in tropical conditions. They will be sent on an extended cruise east, the prime objective being Singapore.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 123, 15 August 1927, Page 13
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