London, July 3.
Aviators throughout the world are eagerly awaiting the evening of July 5 when, after many months of elaborate tests and weather observations, the Imperial Airways' l8-ton flying-boat Caledonia and a Pan-American Airways' giant Sikorsky machine will make the first official \Anglo-American trials from the opfesite direction with a view to the establishment of a trans-Atlantic service.
Allowing for adverse winds, normally from the west, the Caledonia should cover the 1,993 miles from Rynanna, at the mouth: of the river Shannon, to Botway, Newfoundland, in sixteen hours, For safety, however, the machine will carry enough petrol to complete the 2,223 miles via Montreal to New York.
The crew will consist of a pilot, a first officer, an engineer and "two wireless operators. An automatic pilot will be fitted.
The flying-boat will*be continually in touch with both sides of the Atlantic and with ell ships en route.
By a gentleman's agreement; both flying-boats will start together. If weather delays one, the other will wait.—Reuter,
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