The Archive · 1921

FLYING AT FOOCHOW Machine Designed by Chinese and Locally Built From a Correspondent

Foochow, May 26.

To-day we witnessed at Pagoda Anchorage a mark in the ladder of progress of Chinese aviation, and a mark of considerable im-

Mr. R. ©. B. Hockey, a late pilot of the British Royal Naval Air Service, successfully carried out test flights with a Chinesd naval seaplane. The machine was designed by a -Chinese naval lieutenant, and constructed at Pagoda, and built throughout with local material with the exception of the engine. Mr. Hockey declared the machine to be a practical success in the air.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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