The mammoth 83,0001 b Boeing Clipper, photographed during a test on the waters of Puget Sound, Seattle. It is one of the six being constructed for the Atlantic and Pacific services at a cost of £BOO,OOO. One of to-day’s messages states that one of these flying-boats, the largest in the world, is expected in Auckland in July in the course of a survey flight over the new South Pacific air route.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 10
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71The mammoth 83,000lb Boeing Clipper, photographed during a test on the waters of Puget Sound, Seattle. It is one of the six being constructed for the Atlantic and Pacific services at a cost of £800,000. One of to-day’s messages states that one of these flying-boats, the largest in the world, is expected in Auckland in July in the course of a survey flight over the new South Pacific air route. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 10
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