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2. Jetsprint - Wikipedia

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   Margaret spectated jet boat Marathons which Pat competed in, but wanted to see more of the race, suggesting a smaller, more condensed track. Events were originally held in the same natural braided rivers that had inspired Sir William Hamilton to develop the jetboat , but when the sport was introduced to Australia in the mid-1980s, permanent ...

3. Short Sunderland in New Zealand service - Wikipedia

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   A Short Sunderland MR5 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, displayed at the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland. The Short Sunderland was developed as a long range maritime reconnaissance flying boat and was widely used during the Second World War.

4. Jetboat - Wikipedia

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   A jetboat is a boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft. Unlike a powerboat or motorboat that uses an external propeller in the water below or behind the boat, a jetboat draws the water from under the boat through an intake and into a pump-jet inside the boat, before expelling it through a nozzle at the stern.

5. Bill Hamilton (engineer) - Wikipedia

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   Sir Charles William Feilden Hamilton OBE (26 July 1899 – 30 March 1978) was a New Zealand engineer who developed the modern jetboat, and founded the water jet manufacturing company, CWF Hamilton Ltd. Hamilton never claimed to have invented the jet boat. He once said "I do not claim to have invented marine jet propulsion.

6. List of aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and Royal ...

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   Obsolete missile, no longer in service with the Royal New Zealand Navy. The Ikara was fitted to HMNZS Southland. One of the Leander-class frigates. Sea Cat: Seacat GWS-22: United Kingdom: Short-range surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile: 1960-1990s: Obsolete missile, no longer in service with the Royal New Zealand Navy.

7. Consolidated PBY Catalina in New Zealand service - Wikipedia

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   The New Zealand government had purchased 16 Short Sunderland MR5 flying boats as part of its first major postwar purchase of aircraft for the RNZAF. [42] These were to replace the Catalinas of No. 5 Squadron and the arrival of the first two Sunderlands at Laucala Bay on 13 June 1953 began the phasing out of the older aircraft.