LONG AIR JOURNEY
FLEET OF FLYING-BOATS ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA British Wireless—Press Assn.—Copyright i RUGBY, Thursday. A fleet of large flying boats of the Royal Air Force will begin about the middle of next month a journey from England to the East. The journey is expected to include an aerial tour of the Indian coast ai cuit of Australia. The machines will leave Plymouth and proceed to Bordeaux, thence down the Garonne Valley to Marseilles. They will fly aloag the Italian western coast, and thence to Suda Bay. Crete, Aboukir, Alexandrettr and Bagdad. The Persian Gulf wL.i then b ? traversed on the way to Karachi. The craft chosen for the cruise are supermarine Southampton boats, with hulls of stainless steel. Each will be driven by two 500-horse-power Napier engines at an average speed of 60 miles an hour. Fully loaded each boat weighs approximately nine tons and carries enough fuel for a continuous voyage of 2,000 miles. The beats are similar in design to the Southampton airplanes now in general use with the Royal Air Force, but the metal hull is 5001 b. lighter than the wooden hull and does not absorb water. —British Official Wireless
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 1
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