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1926
1926 - 0220.PDF
APRIL 1, 1926 SEAPLANE FOR G.G. OF AUSTRALIA The Ubiquitous D.H.50 Fitted with Floats SINCE obtaining first prize in the competitions at Gothenburgsome years ago, the D.H.50 has scored a long series of successes in its original form, fitted with a 230-h.p. Siddeley Pumaengine. To take but one out of[many, mention may be made It might have been thought that the possibilities of thetype, which is now several years old, had been exhausted, but that this is very far from being the case was demonstratedlast week when, by the courtesy of "the De Havilland Air D.H.50 AS A SEAPLANE [FLIGHT Photagraph This front view shows the clean lines of the machine. of Cobham's flight last year with Sir Sefton Brancker as passenger from London to Rangoon and back. The recent flight by the same pilot from London to Cape Town and back may perhaps be said to have been the high-water mark as craft Company, we were enabled to inspect the machine at the Rochester works of Short Brothers, where a D.H.50 ha? been fitted with Duralumin floats built at the Short works. This particular machine has been constructed for Lord LORD STONEHAVEN'S D.H.50 : Side View. [FLIGHT Photograph regards outstanding performances, and in this flight, it will be remembered, the machine was fitted with an Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar of 385 h.p., so as to give it a greater power reserve for getting off some of the aerodromes in Africa, which are situated in a very hot climate and at considerable height. Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia, who has doubt- less been influenced in his choice of machine by the very excellent work done in Australia by D.H.50's of the original land 'plane type. The conversion of the 50 into a seaplane has not necessitated any alterations to the machine itself and in this connection it is interesting to note that the sub- 188
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