NEW FLYING BOAT

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27132, 31 August 1953, Page 13

NEW FLYING BOAT

SUCCESSFUL TRIALS OF PRINCESS (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) r r% rv u. . ■ LONDON, August 27. fitght trials of the Saunders-Roe cess n fuT S th nying ’ boat have been. so suethat ihere may be a reprieve havl I 'b<sF C °? d and hi’rd aircraft which await b new S Cp ° ned '’ and which must rorresnnnrfx.^ 8111 ? 5 ' -l ays the aviation Guardiam" ° f the “Manchester fasS? e at fi =? ?, rincess , has taken off - wnib l ? U ‘ u £ wei ght of 320,0001 b greater than the original deturbo®nr U o r n' alt J? ou S b the 10 g Proteus tur do prop engines Were gj v j ns r on i v 80 Per cent, of the design power. aircraft will be able to fly at aUowed a !L' up weight if *t is engines the naw £ r Proteus Ire not' • mom ®nt flying-boats ttese engines® glVen any priority *>?

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