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A Queer Craft 1927
Description
Item title reads: "A Queer Craft! Half seaplane, half boat, skims surface at 75 miles an hour - crosses the channel from Boulogne in 25 minutes!"
Dover, Kent
M/S craft which is a boat with wings floating on choppy water. The camera shows various angles around the craft while the crew...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Margaret
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- sound
- Media URN:
- 33347
- Sort Number:
- G 1431
- Time in/Out:
- 01:16:32:00 / 01:17:27:00
- Canister:
- G 1431
- Film ID:
- 698.11
- Issue Date:
- 08/09/1927
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This craft was the brainchild of French inventor Georges de Gasenko.
It was called "La Puce du Mer", (The Sea Flea), and was described at the time as an "air-screw driven water skimmer". It carried four people.