UNSINKABLE SEAPLANE
SUCCESSFUL TESTS. RUN OVER BY WARSHIP. (Received 11, 11.15 a.m.) London, March 10. An unsinkable Fairey bomber designed for the Royal Air Force fleet air arm was successfully demonstrated at Feltham. Special flotation bags are fitted inside the fuselage. Tho pilot merely pulls a string and a rubber dinghy emerges from the top wing fully inflated. At the conclusion of the tests a battleship ran over the 'plane, which remained afloat and unharmed.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 76, 11 March 1933, Page 6
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