“FLYING HOTEL”
FOR SERVICE TO LONDON & AUSTRALIA CONSTRUCTED IN BRITAIN. DESIGNED TO CARRY TWENTY PASSENGERS. (By Telegraph—Press .Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. A fourengined “flying hotel” for the passenger service to India and Australia is already in service in the United Kingdom, according to the “Daily Telegraph.” It is designed to carry 20 passengers 3,000 miles at each hop. It has four bedrooms, a lounge which is also a dining room, with a table for twelve persons, an all-electric kitchen, and radio-equipped cabins; also a telephone system connecting the different parts of the plane. The machine is not a converted bomber, although it embodies many lessons learned in the construction of the most modern bombers. The plane is expected to play.an important part in the development of world air lines after the war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1943, Page 4
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137“FLYING HOTEL” Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1943, Page 4
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