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WIDE CRUISING RADIUS. BEING BUILT IN U.S.A. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Nov. 22. The “Sun’s” Washington correspond, ent says. The United States Navy is secretly building a seaplane with a cruising radius of 3000 miles, which will attempt to fly across the Pacific in 1928 The plane will be ready for the trial flights within two weeks. If successful it will go to San Francisco, thence to Japan or the Philippines via Honolulu, with the possibility of then continuing the flight around the world.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 November 1927, Page 8
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87SECRET SEAPLANE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 November 1927, Page 8
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