BIG FAST SEAPLANE.
Successful test flights during which a speed of 100 knots (about 116 miles an hour ) was attained;. have been made at Cowes with a huge Vickers Valencia seaplane for the War Ministry, its weight when leaded is 18,5001 b.. it has a wing span of 112 feet, an'd carries nearly two tons of petrol. It is fitted with two Rolls-Royce Condor engines of 1300 horse-power, driving twin propellers. Captain S. Cockerill was the pilot. What is claimed to be the smallest seaplane in the world is undergoing tests, writes an air corerspondent. Wings, included, it can be placed in a good-sized room. Of biplane construction, it. has an 18ft. wing span a hull I,7ift. long, and a 3 -cylinder American en> gine
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Shannon News, 9 October 1923, Page 4
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125BIG FAST SEAPLANE. Shannon News, 9 October 1923, Page 4
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