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Volume 6, Issue 10
1 October 1934
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| October 01 1934

The Three‐Engined Short “Valetta”: Full Details with Dimensions and Estimated Performances of a Monoplane Float Version of the “Calcutta”

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1934
Aircraft Engineering (1934) 6 (10): 207–208.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb029859

THE all‐metal “Valetta” has been built to the order of the British Air Ministry as an experimental aircraft to obtain particulars regarding the relative merits of a float and boat‐seaplane of a size comparable to the “Calcutta” as regards performance and seaworthiness.

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