The largest flying-ships ever built in Great Britain, two fifteen-seater Short-Jupiter flying boats, will be launched at Rochester early in the New Ye They, have been developed from the frying-boat in which Sir Alaa Cobham jis at present making his Afeican flight. They are all metal ind will be able to carry a crew of three and. fifteen passengers. Each machine will be provided a refreshment buffet with ice and a cooking stove The planes will be used on the marine sections of the 10,000 mile England-Australia Empire airway.
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