NEW FLYING-BOAT ARRIVING.
WELLINGTON-NELSON SERVICE. iPRUSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, December -1. For use on tho Wellington-Nelson air service, a Saro-Windhover flvingboat is expected to arrive in New Zealand next week. At present it is aboard the steamer Port Huon, which is due at Auckland on Friday next. The machine is the first of its type to be built, and was put through tests by Flight-Lieutenant Scott, of the Saunders-Koe Company, on October lGtli and 17tli. Upon its arrival it will be assembled at tho Hobsonville air base. On account of the long ocean voyage, the wing was made in three sections. The machine is similar to the fourseater Cutty Sark which is at the Hobsonvillo "base, except that it is larger and has three De HavilandGipsy engines, each of 105 h.p., suspended above the wing instead of two m the earlier model. It has accommodation for five passengers in addition to the pilot.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 5 December 1930, Page 25
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