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Aviation History
1950
1950 - 0522.PDF
344 FLIGHT Outside the Saunders-Roe erection shop at Cowes the slipway is being strengthened for the 140-ton flying boat. FLYING-SHIP on STOCKS and imagination have often been combined to present, in advance of the eagerly awaited launching and first flight, impressions of the stately Saunders-Roe Princess flying boats. But reality alone can give full satisfaction, and there is encouragement in the news that construction of the three Princesses proceeds according to schedule. Last July, the hull of Princess No. i was withdrawn from its building stocks to permit attachment of the inner wings and main The form of the impressive bow and " figure-eight-section " hull of Princess No. I is already apparent.
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