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1935
1935 - 0122.PDF
62 FLIGHT. JANUARY 17, 1935. -.Tv. A NOTEWORTHY RAT. TLIGHT BEGINS Four Short " Singapores " of No. 210 (F.B.) Squadron Leave Pembroke Dock for the Far East to Re-equip ATo. 205 (F.B.) Squadron A VERY interesting flight, which has no precedent in the annals of the Royal Air Force, started from Pembroke Dock last Tuesday, January 15. It is called a Delivery Flight, and its object is to take out to Singapore Base, which is the headquarters of the Far East Command, four flying boats of the " Singapore III " type with which No. 205 (Flying Boat) Squadron is to be re-equipped. It will be remembered that No. 205 (F.B.) Squadron came into being by making a great formation flight in four " Southamptons" under Group Capt. (now Air Com.) H. M. Cave-Brown-Cave. The boats took off from Plymouth on October 17, 1927, and flew by stages right round Australia and back to Singapore, where they settled down as the nucleus of the Far East Command. Since then their '' Southamptons '' have made many notable flights to Hong Kong and other places in the Far East. The time has now come when the faithful " Southamp tons " have to be replaced bv something more modern, for it is extremely necessary that everything about our base The flagship of the Squadron receiving its final attentions on the floating dock. This "Singapore III " had already done some 180 hours' flying, including taking Sir Philip Sassoon out to the Near East. (Flight Photograph.)
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