AN AIR GIANT
; Pitted with twelve cabins as big as those on Atlantic liners, a flying-boat claimed to be the largest in the world is "being launched" «at Toulouse. This machine, which is to bear the name Excelsior,'will have a wing span of 160 feet.'lts normal speed will be 150 niilesan hour, and it will be able to attain a flying height o£ 18,000 feet. Six engines with a total of 5100 h.p. will;drive this enormous" seaplane and its 30 passengers across the Atlantic.
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Evening Post, Issue 26, 31 January 1935, Page 24
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84AN AIR GIANT Evening Post, Issue 26, 31 January 1935, Page 24
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