Transport: Transatlantica

News from four scattered spots last week suggested that the long-touted airplane service is on the verge of becoming a reality:

¶ In Bermuda, up from the new airport on coral-girt DarreH's Island rose the four-motored, 18-ton flying boat Cavalier for its first test flight since arriving in sections from Great Britain two months ago. For 26 minutes the big craft drummed over the harbor at 185 m.p.h. with only its crew aboard. In a few weeks, Imperial Airways will start it buzzing back & forth to the U. S. in a series...

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