"Sport and General" Photo. The Aotearoa, first of the three flying-boats for the trans-Tasman service, going down the slipway at the works of Short Brothers, Rochester, Kent. TJie flying-boat has a range of 2000 miles and can take off loaded to 46,0001b instead of the 40,5001b of the earlier type, represented by the Canopus.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 67, 21 March 1939, Page 9
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54"Sport and General" Photo. The Aotearoa, first of the three flying-boats for the trans-Tasman service, going down the slipway at the works of Short Brothers, Rochester, Kent. TJie flying-boat has a range of 2000 miles and can take off loaded to 46,0001b instead of the 40,5001b of the earlier type, represented by the Canopus. Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 67, 21 March 1939, Page 9
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