GIANT SEAPLANE.
ACCIDENT DURING TRIALS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 31. 5.5 p.m. London, August 30. The world’s largest seaplane, named the Cromarty, which had been carrying out secret experiments in the Scilly Islands for the Air Ministry, struck wreckage when rising from the water, causing a hole. The crew donned lifebelts and baled and beached the machine, which had a top wing with a spread of 108 feet and two 850 horsepower engines.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1922, Page 5
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76GIANT SEAPLANE. Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1922, Page 5
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