ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE
BRITISH FLYING-BOAT READY FOR TESTS.
REFUELLING IN FLIGHT
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY. July 8
The first Imperial Airways transAtlantic flying -boat Caribou has been flown to the experimental establishment at Felixstowe to undergo official tests.
The Air Ministry announces that the first difficulties encountered in refuelling in flight have been overcome, and that 1000 gallons of petrol can now be passed from a tanker to a flyingboat at the height of 1000 feet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1939, Page 5
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