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1946
1946 - 2235.PDF
THE BRITISH FLYING BOAT — S U There is no limit to the weight that any natural water surface will support. Given the necessary depth the " Queen Elizabeth " (85,000 tons) will float as well as a small dinghy. • But hardly anywhere in the world does Nature offer a land surface which will take the modest weight of the largest landplane of today without elaborate and costly strengthening. And as size increases so will the cost of landplane runways. • The runways which Nature provides for flying boats all over the world cost nothing and will never wear out. Moreover, they leave the operator and designer free to develop the optimum size of flying boat, however large this may prove to be. ii HT KT ID S3 IB CD Designers and builders of British flying boats—Saunders-Roe Ltd., 45, Parliament Street, London, S. W.I. Telephone: Whitehall 7271
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