COMMENT ON FLYING-BOAT
GIBRALTAR-PLYMOUTH RECORD. RETURN CRUISE TO EAST ENDED. British Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 18. The performance of the Royal Air Force flying boat which flew on Wednesday from Gibraltar to Plymouth in a single hop of over 1200 miles is exciting comment among aircraft experts. The machine is a 1500 horse-power Sesquiplane styled Saro 7 and is manufactured by Messrs. Saunders and Roe. The flying-boat completed a cruise to the East and back of 8300 miles between August 15 and September 16 with a total flying time of 90 hours, making an average 92 miles an hour. It carried a crew of six. At Algiers the boat successfully rode out at anchor a gale reaching a force of 60 miles an hour.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1931, Page 9
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