HUGE FLYING BOAT
LAUNCHED AT BALTIMORE REPORTED TO BE LARGEST IN WORLD. NAVAL PATROL BOMBER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, November 8. The Navy’s 67-ton patrol bomber, reputedly «the world’s largest fly ing-boat, was launched at the Glen Martin factory at Baltimore today, and christened “Mars.” It possesses four motors capable of carrying a bomb-load to Europe and back nonstop. The interior space is comparable with a ten-roomed house. The machine cost 2,500,000 dollars.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1941, Page 5
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73HUGE FLYING BOAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1941, Page 5
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