WORLD’S BIGGEST SEAPLANE
SUCCESSFUL TRIALS MADE. TVILL CARRY 17 PASSENGERS. 3’.' 1 '■ British Wireless. Rugby, Sept. 25. Highly suceessful ■ '..demonstration flights have .been given by the biggest seaplane so far constructed, .the Valetta monoplape - made y by Short Brothers, Rochester.-/It -is; considered to mafk a ■ distinct advance on tjie'Calcutta biplane type, also made by Shorts. The Valett? lips a wing-span of 107 ft., and three Bristol-Jupiter -engines of 490 horsepower? give/a maxinnim speed of about 140 miles an hoUr. ~Comfortable passen-. ger accommodation fbr;l7 is provided. The plane is ea§ily;corivertibk to a land niaihipe.- With a. 10-ton load the seaplane yesterday in a side wind took off in 18 seedfids. ~ .
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1930, Page 9
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