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Aviation History
1937
1937 - 0073.PDF
JANUARY 14, 1937. FLIGHT. 27 SOME NAUTICAL CONTRASTS THIS set of photographs depicting standard flying boats in service with or ordered for the R.A.F., in comparison with the Short Empire boat, should be studied in conjunction with the paragraph on the opposite page, "Searching the Seas." None of the Service machines represents ultra-modern practice in the design of aircraft of this class, whereas the Empire boat is the very latest civil craft. Short Empire boat (four 740 h.p. Bristol Pegasus XCs) (Flight photograph. Supermarine Scapa with a pair of 525 h.p. medium-supt rcharge i Rolls-Royce Kestrel Ills. (Flight photograph.) Supermarine Stranraer (two 850 h.p. Pegasus Xs). Short Singapore III with four medium-supercharged Kestrels. Saro London, variously fitted with 690 h.p. Pegasus Ills and 850 h.p. Pegasus Xs. (Flight photographs.)
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