NO MORE TO BE BUILT
SHETLAND FLYING-BOATS
LONDON, Nov. 19
After public expenditure estimated at more than £50,000 the construction of more giant 100-passenger flyingboats of the Short Shetland type has been dropped because. this already has been out-dated by Saunders Roe’s development of a similar boat equipped with jet and propellor engines states the Evening News. The first Shetland prototype caught fire and sank in January and the second is being completed and will be used for development work.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22184, 21 November 1946, Page 4
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80NO MORE TO BE BUILT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22184, 21 November 1946, Page 4
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