RECORD FLIGHT
TASMAN FLYING-BOAT AWARUA
BASRA TO SOUTHAMPTON. HEAVY CUT IN SCHEDULE TIME. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. The Imperial Airways fly-ing-boat Awarua, intended for the Tasman service., fiew 3,469 miles from Basra to Southampton, a commercial record, in thirty-nine hours, of which twenty-three hours were Hying time. The schedule time for the journey is sixty hours. The Awarua carried thirteen passengers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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68RECORD FLIGHT Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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