HUGE FLYING BOAT READY
TESTS TO BE MADE THIS "WEEK,
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received July 7,5. a p.m. Berlin, July 6. The o-reat Dornier flying-boat Bux, built to° carry 120 persons, is finished and will be submitted to inspection by the world’s Press on Tuesday at Rorsehache, on the Swiss side of Lake Constance, where it has been in course of construction for two and a-half years. The vessel has three decks and twelve engines capable of developing a speed 0f°125 miles an hour. In length it is 131 feet, in height 33 feet, and in breadth 156 feet.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1929, Page 9
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