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1950 - 1515.PDF
io AUGUST FLIGHT Estate manager covers 1,000 miles in a day . . . The trouble with my job has always been an extended line of communications. It's pretty hard to get around on a rocky, wooded island with no railways, and precious few roads. Some of the estates and plantations, which my company is operating, are 400 miles 'up country' and the business of maintaining contact with the stations in the furthest districts under my control was costing me a lot of sleep and a lot of time. I suppose, too, this lack of liaison cost the company a lot of money. "But that's all over now. Since the company brought a Sealand out here, and based it on the capital (where we do the office work), I've got around quite a bit. Yes, I should think I cover about a 1,000 miles on some days. "It's a remarkable plane this Sealand. I've used it continually for all kinds of work. Its main value to me is that it takes my office right to the places where work is in progress on the crops. We can put it down even in the thickest jungle, as long as there's about 800 yards of lake or river to operate from. Sometimes, on the trip back, we fill her up with a tidy amount of freight — I've taken 1,000 lbs. of pineapples over the 500 miles from the East to the West Coast, without refuelling. And that's getting better than 6 air miles per gallon. "Once a week I use the Sealand on forest fire patrol, and before harvest time we fit her up for crop spraying. It doesn't seem to matter what I want—an ambulance, a bus, or a truck—the Sealand is always ready to go anywhere.^fc^fc 70, developingEngines: 2 Gipsy Queen 345 B.H.P. each at take-off. Accommodation: 5/8 seater. Speeds: 196 m.p.h., all-out level. 155 m.p.h., max. weak cruising. Range: 600 statute miles at 127 m.p.h. with T&rTS 1,000 lbs. freight. 315 statute miles at 127 m.p.h. with 6 passengers and baggage plus 80 lbs. of freight. Service Ceiling: 21,000 feet. Rate of Climb: 840 feet per minute at sea level. Take-off: Water 835 yards. Land450 yards. All figures at an all-up weight of 9,100 lbs. IN any difficult region that is beingdeveloped — in Northern Canada, in South America, or in the East Indies, for example — the Short Sealand is the logical answer to the problem of trans- porting men or freight. It is as well suited to private owners and industrial concerns as it is to air-charter and feeder-line companies. SEALAND AMPHIBIAN ShoFls THE FIRST MANUFACTURERSOF AIRCRAFT IN THE WORLD SHORT BROTHERS & HARLAND LTD.. QUEENS ISLAND, BELFAST
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