NEW FLYING BOATS
TRANS-ATLANTIC SERVICE. PROVISION OF DRY DOCK. Test flights of the new Boeing flying boats, which are to be tried for an Atlantic service, will begin at the end of April. This flying-boat, when fully loaded, will weigh 38 tons. For the service of the new Boeings a special amphibian dry-dock has been built and launched. It is designed to transport the big flying-boats either on land or water, and is so contrived that the flying-boat will fly into it, the whole dock with its burden then being raised by means of the double row of buoyancy air tanks along either side. It is called “the galloping dry-dock,” for it has been shown in tests that it can dive into the water, pick up a 45ton load, bring it ashore, and run it about at a speed of three miles an hour.
The new Boeings will accommodate 50 passengers, but for Atlantic and Pacific services will not carry so many. Their maximum speed is about 200 m.p.h. ,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 5
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