The Imperial Airways "Bulletin' has some interesting notes on the technical experiences accumulated during the Atlantic flights. There was already a large amount of data, gained from testing short wave communication during flights along Empire routes, and these combined with preliminary trials around Botwood and Foynes gave good reason to believe that communication would be well maintained all across the At-antic, A study of reports shows that the results actually obtained have surpassed all expect ions, On flight after flight constant touch has been maintained between flying-boats and wireless stations; while as an additional aid to the flying-boat captains, when working out positions, they have been in frequent communication with ships on the North Atlantic, Starting with full information of the weather, the captains were kept posted all the way over as to what they had to expect. They were also enabled to vary their height at different stages with confidence that they would find what they wanted. Thus on the Caledonia's last trip, Capt. Wileockson flew for the first six hours at 13,000 ft. then he came down for some distance to 3,000 ft. and then again went up to 8,000 ft.
It may be mentioned that the happiest relations have prevailed throughout the experiments, real friendship though in rivalry between the men of Imperial and Pan-American Airways.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.