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I'm stretching my memory here, but if I recall correctly, the "golden" boats operated out of Bowmore on the Isle of Islay during the early years of the war in a patrol role, pending deliveries of Sunderlands. Is this correct, and if so, I presume they would have been armed for this purpose. Emoscopes Talk 11:48, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 05:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Now Cavalier flying boat has been changed to cover the accident, then Oppose. The accident is probably notable on its own. Nigel Ish ( talk) 20:35, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
Since the merge idea is more or less dead in the water but attention is still focussed, we have the articles on the Samoan Clipper and Hawaii Clipper which are actually articles about their loss and need renaming. Phillipine Clipper is at Pan Am Flight 1104. GraemeLeggett ( talk) 13:01, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Comparing the speed of the S.42 with a tailwind with that of the Empire with a headwind smacks of "my airplane is better than yours" and it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article. Wiki is not about telling a tale - it is about factual, relevant information regarding the topic of the page. Anything beyond that it completed the flight (which was important as the agreement regarding commercial transatlantic flight required both the US and the UK to have completed a commercial transatlantic flight) is irrelevant. Now if you were to find something on the times each averaged across the same route in the same direction, or to the published cruising speeds, - that would offer some insight, otherwise it is comparing apples and oranges. The info belongs on the S.42 page - not here. NiD.29 ( talk) 23:16, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
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I'm stretching my memory here, but if I recall correctly, the "golden" boats operated out of Bowmore on the Isle of Islay during the early years of the war in a patrol role, pending deliveries of Sunderlands. Is this correct, and if so, I presume they would have been armed for this purpose. Emoscopes Talk 11:48, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 05:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Now Cavalier flying boat has been changed to cover the accident, then Oppose. The accident is probably notable on its own. Nigel Ish ( talk) 20:35, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
Since the merge idea is more or less dead in the water but attention is still focussed, we have the articles on the Samoan Clipper and Hawaii Clipper which are actually articles about their loss and need renaming. Phillipine Clipper is at Pan Am Flight 1104. GraemeLeggett ( talk) 13:01, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Comparing the speed of the S.42 with a tailwind with that of the Empire with a headwind smacks of "my airplane is better than yours" and it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article. Wiki is not about telling a tale - it is about factual, relevant information regarding the topic of the page. Anything beyond that it completed the flight (which was important as the agreement regarding commercial transatlantic flight required both the US and the UK to have completed a commercial transatlantic flight) is irrelevant. Now if you were to find something on the times each averaged across the same route in the same direction, or to the published cruising speeds, - that would offer some insight, otherwise it is comparing apples and oranges. The info belongs on the S.42 page - not here. NiD.29 ( talk) 23:16, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
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