A NEW SEAPLANE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17434, 5 December 1930, Page 3

A NEW SEAPLANE

COOK STRAIT SERVICE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last nightl or use on the Wcllington-Nclson air service, the Windhover living boat is expected to arrive in. New Zealand next week. .At, present it is aboard the steamer Rort fluon which is due. at Auckland on Friday next. The machine is the. first of its typo to lie built, and was put through its tests by Fliglit-Lieut. Scott, of the Saunders Roe Co, on October 16 and 17. Upon arrival, it will be assembled at the I lohsonville air base. On account of tbe long ocean voyage, the wings were made In three sections. The machine Ls similar In Hie fourseater Duly Sark, which is at the Ilobsonville base, save that it is larger, and has three l)e llavilland Gipsy engines, each 105 h.p., suspended above the wing, instead of two in the earlier model. It lias accommodation for five passengers and a pilot. The Windhover, like its predecessor's, Cultv Sark and ("loud, is a graceful monoplane boat equipped with efficient land undercarriage that is packed neatly away when not in use. It lias three air-cooled Gipsy 120 h.p. motors and carries a pilot and five passengers in an cabin.