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T. D. Hallam. The Spider Web
The Spider Web
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE SPIDER WEB
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CHAPTER II. LIKE A FAIRY TALE
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CHAPTER III. THE PHANTOM FLIGHT
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CHAPTER IV. STICKY ENDS OF L 43, U-C 1, AND U-B 20
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CHAPTER V. THE FATAL FOUNTAIN AND END OF U-C 6
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CHAPTER VI. WINGED HUNS AND THE TALE OF THE I.O
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CHAPTER VII. INTO THE BIGHT AND END OF L 53
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CHAPTER VIII. THE FUTURE: RUNNING THE U.S. MAIL
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T. D. Hallam
The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight
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There was the boat called the Porte Baby, a bigger machine than any built and flown in this country until 1918, and this boat was produced in 1915 and flown in 1916. Although it did little useful active service work, it set other designers to thinking, and was the father and mother of all big British aeroplanes and seaplanes. When fully loaded it weighed about eight and a half tons, but no scales big enough to weigh it were obtainable in the service.
It was so large that a Bristol Bullet land scout was fitted on the top plane, which, while the boat was in the air, was successfully launched and flown back to an aerodrome by Flight Lieutenant Day, of the seaplane carrier Vindex. This gallant officer unfortunately was killed later in France.
