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proved impractical (due to the additional weight on the small airframe), Saro designed a larger aircraft on similar lines that could indeed carry three Gipsy II engines. Although a technically successful aircraft and nearly viceless in service, it was a type with a very limited market and only two
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A.21/2, first and only production example, completed July 1931. After modifications (addition of auxiliary winglet over engines to improve air flow and lift), it was sold to
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370:List of flying boats and floatplanes
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214:Specifications (A.21/2 Amphibian)
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226:General characteristics
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171:Launceston, Tasmania
37:Launceston, Tasmania
725:Amphibious aircraft
569:A.22 Segrave Meteor
163:Melbourne, Victoria
140:Production aircraft
89:amphibious aircraft
85:Saro A.21 Windhover
675:Cancelled projects
404:, pp. 125–130
203:City of Portsmouth
129:de Havilland Gipsy
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402:London 1988
299:Performance
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175:King Island
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123:Development
109:Thermopylae
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704:Categories
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559:A.19 Cloud
539:A.7 Severn
534:A.4 Medina
421:References
324:Endurance:
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239:Capacity:
219:Data from
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343:See also
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661:Skeeter
326:4 hours
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376:Notes
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147:Cowes
103:, or
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544:A.10
443:ISBN
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173:via
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