THE "WATERDROME”
A new British invention, the “Waterdrome,” will make landing from flying boats as comfoi table foi passengers as stepping out of a train, reports the London Times. The waterdrome, invented by Mr Arthur Gouge, of the British aeronautical engineers, Saunders-Roe, is equivalent to an airport building and hangar in one. It will eliminate the present need for.taxi-ing across choppy water and transferring passengers to and from a motor launch.
The waterdrome would be built at the edge of a constant level lagoon or a stretch of sea sheltered by a breakwater. By means of a special device the flying boat after it lands is drawn into the hangar and trolleys are run through the shallow water to the hull to take off passengers. A travelling crane in the roof of the hangar lifts mail and freight direct from the flying boat’s hull and transfers it to waiting vehicles. It is planned to equip the water drome with bookstalls, shops, and restaurants.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 5, 31 July 1946, Page 3
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