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Modern Aircraft Fitted with Rolls-Royce Engines. A detailed sales brochure, introducing the dimensions, weights, performance statistics, and armaments of a variety of bombers, attack fighters, and flying boats. It also features five planes in its "experimental section", such as the tail-less Pterodactyl V and the Gloster Gnatsnapper naval biplane.The aircraft profiled in the brochure include the single-seater Firefly IIM, mostly used by the Belgian Air Force; the Fairey IIIF bomber, used to equip RAF squadrons in Egypt, Sudan, and Aden; and the short-lived Supermarine Scapa flying boat. Another Supermarine, the S.6, is depicted in colour opposite the introduction. This plane won the Schneider Trophy in 1929 and 1931. In the latter competition, it both won the prize for the UK and broke the world speed record twice.

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