SEAPLANE SALVAGED.
MISHAP IN THE SOLENT. SPEED RECORD PREPARATIONS. (Received September IS. 7.45 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY. Sept. 17. Tho seaplane in which Flight-Lieutenant Stainforth met with a mishap was raised from the eight fathoms of water in which it sank in the Solent by a salvage crew to-dny. It did not appear to be much damaged. Preparations for Stainforth's attempt to break his own record for the international three-kilometre course, of 379 miles an hour, are being continued. '1 he standard Rolls Rovcfl engine has been removed from the Vickers seaplane m which Flight-Lieutenant Boothman won the Schneider trophy, and a special Rolls Royce engine, designed for the attack on' the speed record, is being installed in its place. The attempt will be made an soon as the weather conditions are suitable
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 11
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133SEAPLANE SALVAGED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 11
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