ATLANTIC AIR MAIL
» FIRST BRITISH FLIGHT ON SATURDAY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. August 1. The Caribou, one of the flying-boats specially built for the North Atlantic air mail service, will make the first flight to Botwood (Newfoundland), Montreal and New York on Saturday. The Cabot, which is not yet quite ready for the service, will carry mails across the North Atlantic on the following Saturday. The weekly service will be continued till the end of September. Two Harrow bombers left for Foynes (Ireland) yesterday. They have been converted into tankers and will refuel the North Atlantic flying-boats in midair. Two other tankers are already : n Botwood. where the flying-boats will be refuelled for their return journeys.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1939, Page 9
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116ATLANTIC AIR MAIL Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1939, Page 9
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