SAFETY IN THE AIR.
SEA-GOING MACHINES. ACTIVITIES IN BRITAIN. British Wireless. RUGBY, Nov. 12. The Under-Secretary for Air, Mr. F. Montague, stated in tho House of Commons that a life-saving collapsible dinghy which could rapidly be inflated by mechanical means recently had been subjected to practical tests, with satisfactory results. These craft would be carried on all sea-going seaplanes large enough to bo so equipped. Action was being taken to improve the buoyancy of all aircraft operating from aircraft-carriers and of all-metal sea-going aeroplanes up to a standard of at least two or three hours' buoyancy in fair weather.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20721, 14 November 1930, Page 11
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