Picture No | 10652261 |
Date | 1939 |
Description | Refuelling aloft by G. H. Davis |
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Refuelling aloft -- a device which enables transatlantic flying boats to carry a much increased payload. How Imperial Airways transatlantic flying boats are refuelled in the air: the flying boat making contact with the tanker plane in the air, and receiving the fuel through a hose.
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Source | Illustration by George Horace Davis in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 5 August 1939, pp222-3 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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