QUICK TOUR OF PORTS
COBHAMS GO BY AIR British Official Wireless Reed. 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Wednesday, Sir Alan Cobham and Lady Cobham are making a quick tour of the English sea ports in the flying-boat in which they have just completed the African survey tour. They left Rochester yesterday and Hull this morning. The machine 1b carrying eight passengers. Although it covered 23,000 miles, and had been flown for 250 hours in all climates, the machine and the two-Rolls-Royce-Condor engines, of 650 h.p each, are still In first-rate condition.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 374, 7 June 1928, Page 9
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89QUICK TOUR OF PORTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 374, 7 June 1928, Page 9
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