HUGE FLYING-BOAT
LOOKING TEN YEARS AHEAD. LONDON, September 3. Mr Oliver Simmons, addressing the British Science Congress, forecasted that in 1935 it would he possible to construct a colossal fly* ing boat, haying an all-stooi monoplane body, 6,000 square feet wing area, and a 220 ft span. Two power units would h) housed in the hull, each developing 3,000 h.p. The hull would be arranged with two decks to carry 100 posse- •« 1,500 miles withoi’A a stop at ii s of 100 miles an liour. The j i from London to New York would made with one stop.
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Evening Star, Issue 19044, 12 September 1925, Page 12
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