AMERICAN FLYING-BOATS.
PURCHASE BY AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE, Sept. 17,
The War Cabinet decided to-day to purchase from America eleven PBY Consolidated flying-boats at a co6t of £1,000,000. The Prime Minister (Mr R. G. Menzies) said that delivery was expected to begin before the end of the year. „ The machines will take the place or the 20 Sunderlands ordered from Britain last year, but which were later handed to the British Government as a Coastal Command unit. Each PBY craft has a maximum speed of 205 miles an hour and carries a crew of six. The machine is highly suited for long-range patrols.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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101AMERICAN FLYING-BOATS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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