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The Saro A17 Cutty Sark was a British amphibious aircraft from the period between World War I and World War II, built by the British firm Saunders-Roe (also known as SARO). The aircraft was named after the ship Cutty Sark , rather than the garment or the fictional witch .
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes.
The Saro A.21 Windhover was a British amphibious aircraft from the period between World War I and World War II, constructed by Saunders-Roe, or Saro. It was originally advertised as the A.19 Thermopylae after the famous clipper ship, being an enlarged version of the Saro Cutty Sark. [1]
The Saro Cloud was a British passenger amphibian flying boat designed and built by Saunders-Roe as the A.19. ... Like the Cutty Sark, it was a twin-engined monoplane ...
Saro A.7 Severn; Saro A.17 Cutty Sark; Saro A.19 Cloud; Saro A.21 Windhover; Saro A.22 Segrave Meteor; Saro A.24 Mailplane; Saro A.33; Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess; Saunders-Roe SR.53 – mixed power interceptor; Saunders-Roe SR.177 – mixed power interceptor (cancelled before completion) Saro Lerwick; Saro London; Saro-Percival Mailplane; Saro ...
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The aircraft in the first instance was a Saro Cutty Sark registered VH-UNV, a twin engined amphibian. It was replaced in September 1931 by a Saro Windhover with three engines. In January 1933 while flying between King Island and Melbourne, the aircraft suffered a failure of two engines forcing Frank Neale to land on the ocean and taxi 25 miles ...
In 1932 they linked with W. Armitage and Sons (Progress buses) to bring passengers from towns in Yorkshire to Blackpool to fly onwards to the Isle of Man in the airline's Saro Cutty Sark three-passenger amphibian. [9]