Photograph of a model of the extraordinary CAMCO V liner
Object detail
Accession number
12-2970
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Issued for British Information Services by Photographs Division, Central Office of Information, London.
Trade and Technical Picture Service.
British Company builds the strange CAMCO V-liner.
This model of the extraordinary Camco V-liner - the longest and probably the slowest aeroplane in the world - was on show for the first time recently amid the supersonic splendours of Britain's 1968 Farnborough Air Show. Designed primarily as a carrier for aerial advertising signs, the strange looking amphibious aircraft is some 378 feet in length - about twice as long as the giant Anglo-French supersonic Concorde airliner - and, as well as being able to cruise at only 52 miles per hour, it can take off in less than its own length on land, and slightly over its length in water. Powered by three Rolls-Royce engines, the V-liner is expected to make its maiden flight early in 1969 and by 1970 it is likely that a (pound sign)2 million export programme will have developed from today's prototype. With its basic framework consisting of tubular aluminium structure, triangular in section and supporting two flying-boat type hulls each crewed by one man, the remarkable aircraft will still weigh only just over four tones.
Trade enquires to: Slingsby Aircraft Company Ltd., Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire, England. ZZZ.154836 (WX.2). September, 1968. Typed
Trade and Technical Picture Service.
British Company builds the strange CAMCO V-liner.
This model of the extraordinary Camco V-liner - the longest and probably the slowest aeroplane in the world - was on show for the first time recently amid the supersonic splendours of Britain's 1968 Farnborough Air Show. Designed primarily as a carrier for aerial advertising signs, the strange looking amphibious aircraft is some 378 feet in length - about twice as long as the giant Anglo-French supersonic Concorde airliner - and, as well as being able to cruise at only 52 miles per hour, it can take off in less than its own length on land, and slightly over its length in water. Powered by three Rolls-Royce engines, the V-liner is expected to make its maiden flight early in 1969 and by 1970 it is likely that a (pound sign)2 million export programme will have developed from today's prototype. With its basic framework consisting of tubular aluminium structure, triangular in section and supporting two flying-boat type hulls each crewed by one man, the remarkable aircraft will still weigh only just over four tones.
Trade enquires to: Slingsby Aircraft Company Ltd., Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire, England. ZZZ.154836 (WX.2). September, 1968. Typed
Media/Materials
Physical description
1 photograph : black and white ; 16 x 21 cm.
Credit Line
Photograph of a model of the extraordinary CAMCO V liner, 12-2970. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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