The Archive · 1927

AMBITIOUS AIR PRO- GRAMME

Four Flying Boats from England to Circle Australia London, May 22, The Air Ministry is sending on 25,000 miles fight four supermarine Napier all-metal flying-boats specially built and just tested for service in the tropics. A large proportion of the planes is of stainless teal. "The machines will from Felixstowe and make a circuit of India, giving demonstrations. From India they will proceed to Singapore, thence make a circuit of Australia and return to Singapore, where they will be permanently stationed.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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