FAREWELL TO FLYING-BOATS
SIR,—I was much interested in Mr. Herbert Addison's gracious tribute- to the flying-boat in your issue of October iith. May I point out, however, that although the " C " Class boats will be withdrawn from the Durban- Cairo-Calcutta route at the end of the year, there is no foundation for the suggestion that flying-boats as a whole are going out of service on the B.O.A.C. routes. The withdrawal of these twelve famous " C" Class flying-boats—the majority of which, it must be remembered, are ten years old—will still leave the Corporation with its finest flower, the new " Hythe " Class flying-boats, twenty-one of which are flying regularly from England on the India, Hong-Kong and Australia routes. In addition, " Golden Hind " now flies a regular return service from the U.K. to Cairo.—
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